My Question of the Day: Some of the best books have been made into really good movies or miniseries, even if the movies/miniseries haven’t always stuck as closely to the text of the book as we would have liked. With that in mind, has there been any book that was made into a movie and/or miniseries that was a total disappoint to you?

My 2 Cents: I listened to the four, unabridged audiobooks of “The Mists of Avalon”, and I was totally enthralled by the whole story of the mystical world of Avalon and its relationship to the practical world of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The four-book series goes back before the reign of King Arthur to tell us how he came to be; borne of Uther Pendragon and a priestess of the Isle of Avalon.

The books were fascinating and hard to turn off.

The movie was beyond horrible.

You can’t squeeze all that content into 180 minutes, no matter how good you think you are. I didn’t watch it at the movie theater. I watched it on my Roku through Netflix instant viewing, but I wish I could ask for a refund of my time, because I abhorred the movie version of the books.

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