Both of these books are amongst the greatest works of 20th century fiction and have had 'alright' films made that capture a little tiny bit of the books: NotR is the prototype postmodernist novel: a contemplation on 'the flip sides of belief and heresy' that's set during the Albigensian Crusade and uses a detective as a narrative device whereas C22 is the finest anti-war book ever-written using a satirical exploration of what it is to obey and rebel in the military. Both have finally 'got' the visual treatments they deserved (on hulu/amazon etc. - something I'll call the netflix treatment). We've also seen something similar with GoT (I say similar as the books are trash) and Dune (very cheap TV series but terrible film and most of the later books are awful) and HBO's cruelly underrated "Gerneration Kill".I wonder what else could do with being 'netflixxed'? For a single book I would like to see "V for Vendetta" given the full 8hrs treatment (I had high hopes for the upcoming "Watchman" but it looks like that's going to be something different) and for a series Arthur C. Clarke's "Series" (Morgan Freeman's benn trying to get a film of the ground for years).
