Booking Through Thursday: Movie Potential

Tami inspired this week’s question:

What book do you think should be made into a movie? And do you have any suggestions for the producers?

Or, What book do you think should NEVER be made into a movie?

I don't know why, but fantasy is the first thing that flashed into my mind after reading these questions. Like books, movies is another form of an escapism for me so I am always looking for actions, intrigue, great special effects and a toss of some magical/fantasy elements and it would make a good movie material in my opinion. For example, The Lord of the Rings is one excellent example although I have not read the books yet. (Don't get me wrong, other genres do interest me too but I am thinking more of the fantasy genre when it comes to movies.)

There are so many fantasy books out there that have great potentials into making a movie but for some reasons, these books stand out on my list:

• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly (This is about a boy whom has lost his mother to cancer and isolated himself but he loves reading and one day, he realized he could hear things and feel emotions from the books. From there, he enters into a strange new world where he would get to encounter a pack of hungry wolves and all various strange creatures, including the Crooked Man, which is an evil troll who frightens him most and will try all ways to tempt him in order to gain his power over the kingdom.) I find this premise highly fascinating and another thing that wowed me is some re-tellings of fairy tales/folk tales which also mingled into this story.
  
  
• The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale (A beautiful re-telling tale from the Grimm Brothers, and what's more there is some romance in it too.)
  
  
• Feast of Souls by C.S. Friedman (A dark magical tale full of magic and sorcery. This is a story about a girl's journey to become a powerful Magister, one whom has more power than any sorcerers on earth. Readers will learn about the positive and negative of the human's nature disposition through this story in which I find it to be enlightening in some ways.)
  
  
• And of course, any Neil Gaiman's books.

So, which books would you like to be made into movies?