Robespierre: Please, post your list!

Here are a few of mine for starters:

"The Seville Communion" Arturo Perez Reverte.

"Birdsong" Sebastian Faulks

"An Instance of the Fingerpost" Iain Pears

I finished re-reading "Caravan to Vaccares." When I first read this book, I pictured Sean Connery in the lead, an but that was so long ago, he is now too old. (must be a brit)

Cry to Heaven! I just love that book! And any good actor could play the lead. That's why it's acting.

Cauly Culkin!

Not a novel, but a true-life adventure:
Valley in Italy: The Many Seasons of a Villa in Umbria by Lisa St Aubin De Teran. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...s&n=507846

She is a wonderful writer and an endearing, but strange person. Not in the least like the other “move to Italy and restore an old farmhouse” type. While you wait to see the movie, read ALL of her books, you will not be disappointed.

"Cry to Heaven" - LOVED it!!! There ARE recordings, not very good ones, of the castratii recorded in the early 20th century?

Regards Ger

Another book, I'd like to see as film is the "Fly-Truffler" by Sobin. Daniel Autiel (sp?) as the Prof.
Charlotte Gainsbourg as the girl.

Nutella, one film that was better than the book, was "Room at the Top," with Laurence Harvey and Simone Signoret.

Mimi, I remember when that movie came out -- and was considered so steamy! I say "considered" because I don't think I got to see it. Wonder if it's still around.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...ance&s=dvd
this is one of the best reviews and the comment by George Carlin is so today.

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Peter Jackson for director. I'll have to think about the actors. There would be many!

Let me second Btilke's post on Down and Out in Paris and London. I just read it and it's a fine read with interesting characters- Bozo, Paddy and Boris. But I disagree about Hugh Grant as the Orwell character. A younger Jeremy Irons or Ben Cross would be best-I don't know who fits that bill today.

I would also like Orwell's Coming Up for Air to be filmed. Any portly 45 year old British actors out there for the role of George Bowling?

I second Pillars of the Earth.

Also The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox set in Burgundy.

And the Italian classic The Leopard.

The Leopard was made into a film and starred Burt Lancaster.

Pillars of the Earth: Angelina Jolie as the mother who lives in the woods (forgot the character name and have lent out the book)

Funny to see this come up again. I would still like to see Down & Out in London & Paris made into a movie (note to GeorgeW: I said I wanted HG to appear in the movie somewhere, not necessarily as the Orwell character).
Another vote for Pillars of the Earth, but I thought there had been plans to turn it into a movie or UK tv mini-series but that the plans fell through. It's such a massive book, I think it would work better as a BBC/PBS series than as a movie--you'd have to cut too much to squash it into a two hour movie.

The Satanic Verses would be interesting....

I'd like to see someone have a go at London Fields by Martin Amis.

The Rebus books would make good films (they make pretty good TV)

RE: Down and Out in Paris and London
Leonardo DeCaprio as Bozo. John Lynch as Paddy. Max von Snydow as Boris. ____ as Orwell.

Thanks, cigalechanta. I had no idea. I'll put it on my Netflix list. I loved the book.

Andrei Makine's "Le Testament Francais"; I bought the paperback by that name at LGW, and despite the French name, it was in English. In USA, I think it is known as "Tales of My Russian Summer."