 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book tag. Yeah, I'm just as surprised as you are This is the first one that I have done in well Over a year. I can't remember the last one that I did if I if I can find it I will throw it up at the end of the video Or if I have a book tag playlist I'll link to there But anyways today we are doing one from Raoul reads He is a relatively new channel to me my friend JB Taylor told me about him I think JB did this tag. It's called the can you adapt it tag, but Raoul Created this himself And we are going to jump in just jump right into it. I'm gonna try not to do a whole lot of cutting Just because I've been doing so much lately even with the new editor I can't send him everything because not all of it's you know long enough to to justify sending it off to him But so the for number one, I will also leave the questions down there for anybody who wants to jump in on this I will tag one or two people at the end I think only one because I once said a specific person in mind that that I want to see do this if they haven't already So number one, what is your favorite book adaptation? It is Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. I absolutely love it I don't think it's a perfect adaptation. I don't think it needs to be I think Jackson Changed things around enough That that it was a it's its own entity while staying faithful to the book now the hobbit was absolute garbage But Lord of the Rings, I really loved it I can sit and watch the extended editions. Yeah, the three and four-hour versions back to back to back It is one of those films that never gets old for me And the only reason why Howard the duck isn't here is because I don't believe that Howard the duck is Anywhere near a good adaptation of like the comics or whatever But it is it is my favorite movie of all time So if you want to if you're gonna give me a pass I would say Howard the duck, but I'm gonna go with Lord of the Rings because I think it is a fantastic adaptation so number two What is your least favorite adaptation? This one is recent. This one upset me greatly I have still not been able to finish this movie I get about 15 minutes at a time and I just turn it off because I am unbearably bored and that is the Goldfinch The book is written by Donna Tartt and without Donna Tartt's words on the page and her beautiful prose This movie is Hollow it has It seems to want to be art. It wants to be something beautiful It just completely fails for me I can't like I said, I can't watch more than 15 minutes at a time I either fall asleep or I get up and go do something else or I start reading I'll pick up up my phone and start reading something or pick up a book and start reading it I just completely spaced out. So yeah, the Goldfinch. I'm pretty sure there's worse ones out there also None of this stuff is gonna be Stephen King if you want Stephen if you want a list that is all Stephen King for this Can can you adapt it a tag? Let me know down in the doobly-doo. I'd be happy to make it But I wanted to stay away from King because if I used King every single one of these things would be King If you could number three if you could adapt any book, which one would it be and why gone south easy? I would change a couple things with gone south. I would make The the girl with the birthmark. I would have her I would change her to Someone with a vitiligo You know have instead of a wine birthmark. I would have a skin condition where you know patchy Piebald sections of you know brown flesh and pale flesh I would do that instead and I'd probably update it to be a different war than Vietnam. I don't know but that's It's one of it's one of those books that I have always seen so vividly and so clearly in my mind that I think it would be super easy to adapt I think it'd be a blast to see it on screen, especially that opening man The air smelled of burning children something like that that opening line is absolutely killer. So number four What's one adaptation that was portrayed? Perfectly. I'm gonna say you Caroline Kepnes is you the Netflix special or lifetime. Whatever what everyone I think it's just Netflix now But uh, I think you was absolutely perfect. It got all the themes all the I think it landed everything Exceptionally well. I I loved the casting of Joe a beck everybody peaches is it peach peaches? I can't remember but peaches salinger because it's a JD salinger's daughter would not daughter, but like it was whatever but It was it was a perfect adaptation I think the casting was absolutely brilliant in both the first one and the second one even if season 2 strayed quite a bit from Hidden bodies, I still enjoyed it and I enjoyed the new characters that they added on to it I just feel like the whole thing is just at that adapted Fantastically it's not it doesn't quite beat out Lord of the Rings for me though So while I think it was I think Lord of the Rings is my favorite adaptation you is a very very close second Next up if you could star in any book adaptation, which one would it be and which character would you like to play? So I've thought about this a lot One of one of the characters that speaks to me the most if I was gonna be an actor And if I was gonna go out and do it and I may not fit the role whatsoever I may do a horrible job, but I would love to play the judge in blood meridian That's one of those characters that has always haunted me. I've never seen a character portrayed a character like that portrayed I don't want to say properly or that I would even do it properly, but I would have a lot of fun trying I think that's what I'm trying to say It's one of those it's one of those roles that I think would be a once-in-a-lifetime role for any actor Fortunately, I'm no actor. I'm not an actor But I would love to see that movie made and I would love to see the judge Portrayed by someone who could do it justice But if I had my choice in a perfect world, I would be given the shot to try it That's where I'm at. So number six when it comes to adapting a novel What's your preferred media TV mini-series or a film? I have absolutely no preference here whatsoever. I like movie adaptations. I like TV show adaptations all that stuff my Current favorite TV adaptation of course you I'm also enjoying Hannibal, but it's not really an adaptation as it is a completely new vision because they like blend Hannibal the book with red dragon They blend all different kinds of stuff. I mean dollar hide and verger are both in the same season. It's crazy, man Absolutely nuts, but it works so well. Brian Fuller and De Laurentiis and all them have worked on it. I think they did a fantastic job The last season is not my favorite, but I did enjoy it enough Am I one of those people who think the series should continue on? No, I don't I think it was a flash in the pan It was perfect for for what it was and I think even the third season was too much if you disagree Go ahead. Just let me have it down there in the doobly-doo I know I'm gonna have a lot of a lot of will and Hannibal shippers in here going. Oh my god You can't stand your up. Yeah, I understand. It's okay. Just hold on there in the comments All right, number seven if you could change anything from a recent adaptation What would it be? This isn't even out yet, but I am I'm gonna say this I'm gonna upset some people because I upset some people on Twitter doon The I don't know I don't understand as a huge fan of the movie Not the movie the book. I think it's a masterclass in omniscient narrative. I Don't like the look of the new film whatsoever. It looks like Rogue One. It looks like the Star Wars movies It looks overly produced even for sci-fi It just looks I hate the colors of it. It's a very boring looking movie It's just browns and blacks and grays and I understand why because you know the plant It's just the whole theme of the thing But yeah It's what doesn't look good to me at all the no interest whatsoever and the guy playing a trait a Traeus a trade a tradies Paula tradies the guy playing a tradies No, I don't know. It was a Timothy Chalamet or whatever and he playing wank also I don't know who the who the person is but I looked at that. I literally laughed at the television Well, actually it was my computer. I like to laughed at my computer screen Because I saw that I was like, oh, that can't be Paul that can't be Paul went and looked and it was Paul I was like, oh, no Anyway, so next up is eight. Is there a book adaptation better than the actual book? If so, which one I almost said The magical boy wizard. I'm not getting into that. I don't even want to I don't want to bring in either crowd You know the the the terfs or the anti-terfs. I don't want that. So I'm not gonna mention that at all what I am gonna say is those Those movies were better than any of the books for me and I didn't even like the movies So that's why I changed my My answer and my answer is the witches of Eastwick If you read was it update update? Hang on. It's sitting right. Yeah, if you read John Updike's novel It's got some really really stupid shit in it Some exceedingly stupid shit like women women's plummings are like a labyrinthine crazies that There's some dumb dumb stuff in there for a book that is there that is about three women Very stupid misogynistic stuff just uninformed stuff, but on top of that The move but actually not on top of that, but the movie I had so much fun with The endings better than the book so many scenes are much better than the book I think the book was too sexual Which is funny because the movie is too but and there was some stuff They're talking about doing certain things. I just I could care less I'd rather watch Cher and Susan Sarandon and whoever the other one is and Jack Nicholson You know mess around on screen that I would read this book Even though I think I gave the book three stars. It's got its issues It's an okay read but I really enjoyed the movie and I enjoyed the movie leaps and bounds Above the book. All right, so the last one is not a question at all But it does say can you tag it tag your friends? So I'm gonna tag booktube goddess If you don't know booktube goddess, you really should you need to go over to her channel. You need to check her out The number one drag queen on booktube. I think is she the only one it might not be I don't know, but I think that's the running joke the best drag queen on booktube She's absolutely fantastic and I get a kick out the editing the the costumes the the skits the reviews my favorite thing she does is the Shove it or shelve it or shelve it or shelve it whatever it is with that's my favorite thing because I I don't know It's something about that series that really speaks to me and I want to do it myself But I'm a mood reader so I don't if I set up something to go and read Ahead of time like what I'm gonna read in the next month. I might read one of them I'm definitely not gonna read all of them. Sometimes I won't read any of them That's why I don't I try not to do TBRs because I always let people down But anyways, so that was the can you adapt it? Thank you so much to Raul for making this this tag I really enjoyed it hence the reason I picked it and the reason why I'm willing to do it on an entire Stephen King version for you You constant readers out there if you want to Thanks to JB for putting this tag on my radar, but until next time I have an e you have been you It's been another book tag. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye