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Ten Movies Most People Don't Know Were Based on Books

And it is yet another Top Ten Tuesday! It's a weekly meme hosted by the creative girls behind  The Broke and the Bookish . Every week, you get to post your own top ten list, based on their suggestions. I tend to break that rule sometimes, and come up with my own topics, but for the most part I stay true to the theme.   Yesterday, I went into an SF bookstore, and bought Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park . Published in 1990 it became a #1 bestseller, and three years later, Steven Spielberg made a movie adaptation that became a successful franchise we all know and love. I saw the movie for the first time in the late 90's and it was only about a decade later that I found out it was based on a book.   This soon became a trend for me - realising that some of my favourite movies are actually big screen adaptations of bestselling novels and short stories. So to honour the literary works behind some of our most bel...