Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days blog has a post here about this list of unfilmable books. The list is pretty good except I think Catcher In the Rye is very filmable. Which is not to say I think it should be or that I think it would make a good movie. But just because Salinger will not let a movie be made does not mean that it is essentially unfilmable.
So what books would you add to the list? I agree with the addition of Mark Z. Danielewski’s book. I would also add David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. It’s just way too huge.
