If you were a film director and could choose one book and make it into a movie, which book would you choose?
My choice #1 would probably be Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita".

Tough one, pia, but I would probably go for an action thriller from Clive Cussler. He has about 15 books that are all ripping yarns. 'Raise the Titanic' would look good on celluloid.

Well...not one book, but an amalgam of many books. For example, 'Red Star Over China' by Edgar Snow, 'The Private Life of Chairman Mao Zedong' by Li Zhisui, Jonathan Spence's 'Mao Zedong' and so on and so forth. In other words, a biopic of the life and times of Mao.

And since I wouldn't have the patience to direct it myself, who would direct it? I think Ang Lee would make a fair choice.

Oh, ozzy! Capital idea! blue and I are great Clive Cussler fans, though we've never been the adventure novel type! In book form the pace is so fast and jam packed with little scientific tidbits that you totally forget that some of the escapades are a tad beyond the realm! Don't know how they'd handle that in film form, but I'd pay my admission!

I'm a huge John Grisham fan, and I LOVE 'The Street Lawyer' I believe this book is best left as a book. I wasn't too fond of all the details left out of his other books turned movies.. But I would definatly do 'The Looking Glass' by Richard Paul Evans! This is the only book that has made me shed bunches of tears!

Here are a few that I've thought would make good movies: "Intensity" by Dean Koontz, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King, "Time Storm" by Gordon R. Dickson, and "Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delany.

I'm torn. I think I'd love to see Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls turned into a movie. Yet, it would be so easy to hack it to pieces trying to force it into an acceptable package for the viewing public. Yuck! Yup, I would have to be the director on this one.

This is a tougie....but I'd probably have to go with "Lily" and "Looking After Lily" by Cindy Bonner. But I'd have to figure out what to leave in and what to take out so the movie wouldn't be too long.

Mine! The one I wrote!

I suppose that wouldn't make it, though....

So, I guess I'd direct a remake of To Kill A Mockingbird and this time emphasis (sorry if I misspelled that) on the parts that were made to be hit upon.

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'Raise the Titanic' would look good on celluloid.

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It didn't, Ozzz... at least in the eyes of the master himself: "Awful from the beginning to end"-Clive Cussler on www.raisethetitanic.com It was premiered in 1980.

But I'd choose one of Cussler's books as well. I just love them!!

I'm a big Neil Gaiman fan, so I'd choose "American Gods" and "Good Omens." There is supposed to be a "Good Omens" movie in the works, but I haven't heard much about it. I think I'd also do a few Terry Pratchett books, but I don't know how well they'd translate into film.

"Down a Dark Hall", by Lois Duncan would make a good movie. It's an excellent young adult horror story.

I think an epic movie, which combines 'The Valley of Horses', The Mammoth Hunters', 'The Plains of Passage', and 'The Shelters of Stone'.

I even have a list of who would play Ayla, Jondalar, Thonolan, Talut, etc! I think it would be quite a movie!

Njal's Saga.

Gary Oldman as Njal. Clancy Brown as Skarphedin. Mel Gibson as Gunnar. Clint Eastwood to direct.

You line the other guys up, and I'll prepare the screenplay.