That never bothered me- it kinda reminds me of Stranger Beside Me. But I did have to bail on the show when it came to the episode where she died. I lost a parent at home when I was around the same age as her daughter, so I couldn’t do it.

On the flip side, I hate getting excited when a favorite novel is adapted for the screen and the movie sucks. My first and most memorable experience with that was Flowers in the Attic (the 1987 theatrical film, not the recent Lifetime movies).

Absolutely not! I have always been excited to see the words based on the book by in movie credits. I remember seeing Jurassic Park for the first time and being excited to see it was also a book. I went home and a movie tie in copy was already on our family bookshelf, thanks to my grams. She used to grab a paperback or 2 every time she went grocery shopping and then send them to our house after she read them.

The Little House books, the Outsiders, Gone With The Wind (there is a made for TV movie called something like the Search for Scarlett that will demonstrate how much of a cultural phenomenon that book and movie were).

JD Robb’s In Death series

You really should read Unmask Alice. As I said in a previous comment, I wasn’t keen on the last chapter. But the rest of the book really filled in some of the info I had always wondered about.

I did not love the final chapter of Unmask Alice. It seemed tacked on, it contradicted most of the rest of the book and it seemed like the author was trying to cover his ass in case he was sued.

Considering the fact that the writer was not a teenage girl and was, in fact, a Mormon woman who had probably never tried drugs or been around any other human being who had, the horrible writing is not much of a surprise.