I don’t know what movie you watched. I thought the Martian was one of the better adaptations I’ve seen. They lifted entire chunks of text from the book to use for dialogue!

It is, yes.

The Hitler Diaries

Idiotic EXAMPLE, sure. But certainly a fun question.

Ender’s Game weirded me out with the naked kids floating around a space station that’s theoretically a military training facility. Or Ender beating a kid to death in a fistfight when they’re what, seven? Like the preteen gang bang in IT: What narrative purpose does it serve?! Other than weirding out the reader and making them uncomfortable I’m not sure what it could be.

The setup sounded interesting, but without a historian familiar with the period writing it, nah.

I read the catcher in the rye when I was holden’s age and I spent the entire book wanting to kick his ass. What a whiny little brat.

I’m curious why the giver is on your list? It’s been decades since I’ve read it, and since the adaptation is on my list of movies to watch I thought it’d be interesting to revisit the novel.

Well, that’s sounds like a horrendous pile of trash. Bit like Run, Hide, Fight. Conservatives have weird fantasies.