Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Books I Love That Became Films or TV Shows

 


The Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is hosted by Long and Short Reviews. They offer this blog hop as a weekly prompt to help you gain new friends and visitors. You don't have to participate every week, but if you decide to post and join the blog hop for a week, Long and Short Reviews asks that you share your link on their weekly post on their website (it will be the top post on the home page each Wednesday morning). The link list remains open for new links for 48 hours. Visit the other bloggers participating to see what they are talking about that week. Comments are appreciated. 

How is it Wednesday again? I still haven't caught up on Tuesday's blog visits, but I hope today is an easier day. Today, we are talking about favorite books that became films or TV Shows. Since I spoke about Little House on the Prairie, I won't go there. I won't even mention Anne of Green Gables. Here are a few others worth sharing. 


The 1993 movie, Gettysburg, was based on the novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, which tells a fictionalized version of the three days of fighting at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War. This novel is part of a series that Sharra wrote with his father. 


Before Nicholas Cage starred as Rayford Steele in Left Behind, based upon the Left Behind novels by Tim Lahaye and Jerry Jenkins, that role was played by the late Brad Johnson, with Kirk Cameron playing another major character, Buck Williams. This is the last series I recall eagerly awaiting the arrival of each new book. 


The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough was brought to the small screen in the early 80s, with Richard Chamberlain playing ambitious priest Ralph de Bricassart alongside Rachel Ward's Meggie Cleary. 


In 1994, The Stand by Stephen King was brought to television as a mini-series starring many well-known actors like Richard Thomas, Molly Ringwald, Gary Sinise, and Rob Lowe. 


On Strike for Christmas was the first book I ever read by Sheila Roberts. It's how I came to love her work. In 2010, Lifetime Television brought it to the small screen. I've never seen it, but I really want to one day. 


What can anyone say about the Harry Potter series except that it is amazing? I held off on reading it for years because I don't read overly popular books. Once I indulged myself, I was hooked, though I don't think I've seen a single movie all the way through. 

12 comments:

Stephen said...

The Killer Angels was both a superb book and WONDERFUL movie.

George said...

The Stand is such a great book. I enjoyed the newer mini series but I think the original is better.

Aymee said...

My first thought was Little House on the Prairie, too, but I refrained. LOL I loved the original mini series of The Stand!

Here is my post.

Cheryl Malandrinos said...

I loved the whole series by the Shaaras. The son also writes about the American Revolution if you are interested in that time period, Stephen. Thanks for visiting.

Cheryl Malandrinos said...

I agree, George. Thanks for visiting today.

Cheryl Malandrinos said...

Me too, Aymee. I am an LHOP addict. Thanks for stopping by today.

Kathy said...

Couldn't think of one, but I sure should have been able to think of the Thornbirds or Harry Potter. Nice post.

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Lydia said...

The Stand was a good miniseries!

Cheryl Malandrinos said...

I agree, Lydia. Loved the actors portrayals of the book characters.

Cheryl Malandrinos said...

Thanks, Kathy. The Thorn Birds was wonderful. Appreciate the visit.