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Book vs film: Team Book takes the win

A collage of book covers for Warm Bodies, The Gunslinger, Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, A Wizard Of Earthsea, Never Let me Go, The Lovely Bones, The Color Out of Space and Howl's Moving Castle.

Last week I closed up Book vs Film: a season of reviews comparing eight novels to their big-screen adaptations. The books won, but as the cliché goes, it’s about the journey, not the destination. The working title for this season of The Book Corner was “good book, shit film”. As group-sourced projects often go, not […]

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Book vs film: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Nicholas Hault's R and Teresa Palmer's Julie flee zombies in Warm Bodies.
Nicholas Hault's R and Teresa Palmer's Julie flee zombies in Warm Bodies. Credit: Summit Entertainment.

The Book Corner season 5 episode 1: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion The Book Corner takes on a series of books and their adaptations, for better or for worse. We start with Isaac Marion’s 2012 rom-zom-com Warm Bodies and the 2013 film starring Nicholas Hoult. Was it a fresh take on the zombie genre or […]