Not sooooo new, but new to our hearts! "I Am the Messenger"

From the Aussie who brought us one of our all-time-favorite books(The Book Thief), comes (or rather came, as it was published a few years ago) I Am the Messenger. This book has got it all!

Ed's an under-age cab driver who's on a fast track to nowhere, hopelessy in love with his best friend Audrey, and destined to follow in his alcoholic father's footsteps to an early grave and an unfulfilled life. Unexpectedly, however, Ed stops a bank robbery and his life changes dramatically. Just brimming with mystery and heart and inventive prose, I am the Messenger is one of my new favorite books!

Wonderful World of Blicks...wait, what's a Blick?

Blicks, dear reader, are what happen to books when they become movies. More often than not, the book is way better than the movie. Take, for instance, The DaVinci Code, which was a thrilling and fun book, but which translated kind of flatly to the screen. I mean c'mon, Tom Hanks as Langdon?! He's not exactly the dashing hero I envisioned. But then you've got a movie like The Devil Wears Prada, which brings a dash of humanity to the villian completely lacking in the book...and well, you get to see some really great clothes, and then there's Brokeback Mountain which is far more developed than the sparsely written short story. There are even some really fabulous movies that I had no idea were novels first!


So, Whadda think about these following Movies/Books. Which version is better and Why?

Hoot

Sin City

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Devil Wears Prada

The Borne Supremecy

Harry Potter (any or all of them)

Ella Enchanted

Pride and Prejudice

Brokeback Mountain

V is for Vendetta

The Princess Bride

Cold Mountain

The Princess Diaries

In her Shoes

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Memoirs of a Geisha

Angela's Ashes

Carrie

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Dead Poet's Society

Clueless/ Emma

High Fidelity

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Holes

Jurassic Park

Lord of the Flies

The Outsiders

Rebecca

Sense and Sensiblity

A Series of Unfortuante Events

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Speak

To Kill a Mockingbird

Where the Heart Is