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user_profile:user_profile.profile_pictureby Kenji
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Many great books have yet to be done justice on screen, but various films surpass the written source.

My favourite books (very few of which have had high quality film adaptations):

The Wind in the Willows (Grahame),
Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez),
The Little Prince (St Exupéry),
Tom Jones (Fielding),
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Murakami),
Rings of Saturn (Sebald),
My Uncle Napoleon (Pezeshkzad),
Jacques le Fataliste (Diderot),
The House of the Spirits (Allende),
I am a Cat (Soseki),
Manon Lescaut (Prévost),
Snow Country (Kawabata),
The Life of...


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