The Beach. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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The Beach
Alex Garland, 1996
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Danny Boyle, 2000

Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, stays in a drab travelers’ hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he immediately becomes attracted to Françoise. Daffy explains that he and other travelers settled there in secret several years earlier, but difficulties arose and he chose to leave. Daffy commits suicide, leaving Richard a map to the island.


Thumbsucker. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1999 book
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Thumbsucker
Walter Kirn, 1999
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Mike Mills, 2005

Justin Cobb is a shy 17-year-old teenager who still sucks his thumb. Realizing it’s totally disrupting his home, love and school love life, he allows his orthodontist to break him of the habit through hypnosis. Justin begins to experiment with prescription drugs, pot and sex as alternate means to overcome his anxieties and become normal, never realizing normal is just a state of mind.


The Personal History of David Copperfield. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 1850 book, David Copperfield
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David Copperfield
Charles Dickens, 1850
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Armando Iannucci, 2019

The life of David Copperfield is chronicled from his birth to the present day. After being told of his mother’s death and funeral, David escapes from his life of drudgery and finds his wealthy aunt Betsey Trotwood and her lodger, the eccentric Mr. Dick. fter troubling problems with Steerforth and Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood finances David’s ambition to become a gentleman and author.


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 1952 book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis, 1952
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Michael Apted, 2010

Three Narnian years after the events of Prince Caspian, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie are staying with their irritating, bookworm cousin Eustace Scrubb while their older siblings Peter and Susan are in America with their parents and the war still rages on. The lord, who becomes the new governor, gives Caspian a sword, one of seven originally given to the lords by Aslan.