Then there's The Martian, a 2011 novel by Andy Weir. For a first novel by an author, he hit this one out of the park. He cleared even the upper decks like the novel was a baseball nose cone on an N10,000 in a minimum diameter all carbon fiber rocket! You might guess that I really like the book. Its one of the best books of its kind that I've ever read and uh.......I read ............ a lot. The movie, unusually enough, is also excellent. Yes, they did the usual condensation of the book. I don't mind that as its usually only a roughly 2 hour movie. And yes, the movie changes a few details that were in the book, but generally only for dramatic affect. Can I say "Iron Man" without giving away too much? LOL! The reader will recognize the movie for what it is, a faithful rendering of the book into cinematic form.
Another would be the 1960 magnificent piece of literature, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee that is currently being banned by the ignorant, stupid, or just plain evil in the "Woke-U-Verse," and the 1962 cinematic adaptation by the same name, staring Gregory Peck, which is a faithful rendering of the novel in cinematic form. Both are wonderful and should be required reading and viewing to claim and or remain part of the human race. For the fools who denigrate this book and obviously the movie? God help us all.
