Summer Reading List
It's Memorial Day, which means beach time, which means reading, which means not stealing your girlfriend's Glamour, even if it's only to troll for side-boob. Grab one of these books, all of which have adaptations in production -- but none of which have covers graced with an actor who'll reveal the shallowness of your literary aspiration.
Watchmen (Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons):
Set in 1985, the grandaddy of all graphic novels concerns a plot to murder all the world's superheroes. The film's directed by 300 auteur Zach Snyder, so you know it's going to be a Thrilla!!!! (Movie in March)
Buy it at Amazon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (F Scott Fitzgerald): Button's about a man who's born as an 80-year-old, then ages in reverse, a notion which had a great effect on a young Morgan Fairchild. (Movie in December)
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Neuromancer (William Gibson):
This book's credited with starting the cyber-punk movement, thanks to its action-packed tale of a former hacker hired by a shady businessman to pull off a thrilling cyber-heist. Like what? "My husband was the Ministre of Oils for Uganda. I will need your banking number to safeguard his fortune in your account"? (Movie next year)
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Button, Button (Richard Matheson):
Previously adapted into a Twilight Zone episode, this story from the I Am Legend author follows a couple who receive a box containing a button that, if pressed, will both give them $1 million and simultaneously kill someone they don't know. The Zone ended in tragedy, but in real life, "Daddy needs a new pair of yachts." (Movie in Fall)
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Choke (Chuck Palahnuik):
From the Fight Club scribe, Choke's antihero is a colonial theme-park employee/sex-addicted con man who manages to turn staged food-choking incidents in restaurants into a stream of checks from good-samaritan strangers. Warning: do not try this at Olive Garden, or you will die. (Movie in September)
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