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As is the tradition, I take a friend’s idea and follow up on it. Giving you…

Top 5 novels/stories that I would like to adapt for film:

1. Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
2. “Angel” – Pat Cadigan
3. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace ¹
4. “Hinterlands” – William Gibson
5. Grendel – John Gardner

Top 5 books I wish I had written:

1. Infinite Jest
2. Neuromancer
3. Perdido Street Station
4. The Diamond Age (or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer)
5. Grendel

Top 5 movies that I would have done differently:

1. Clerks
2. The Matrix (all three of them, in increasing orders of magnitude.)
3. Pi
4. Johnny Mnemonic
5. Jurassic Park

Top 5 under-rated movies:

1. Dave
2. Aliens (no, really!)
3. Chocolat
4. Lola Rennt
5. High Strung

1. From Don Gately’s perspective, of course.[↩]

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