Giveaway: Coraline
March 1, 2009
Thanks to Harper Collins, I am hosting a giveaway for 3 copies of Neil Gaiman’s book Coraline. You can read my thoughts on the movie and on the book – I recommend both of them. The three winners will receive a copy of the book with the cover pictured above.
This giveaway is open to residents of the U. S. It ends at midnight on Saturday, March 7, 2009 and winners will be announced on Sunday, March 8, 2009. To make this one a little interesting, you have to answer this question to enter: What is your favorite book to movie adaptation? Winners will be chosen from among all those who answered the question, using random.org.
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I already have the book (though I’m almost tempted to enter because I don’t have THAT edition, but I won’t be greedy :P), but awesome giveaway!
Oh, how exciting! Here is my answer: Gone With the Wind. I haven’t read or seen Coraline and I would love to have a chance to read the book. I think my husband would love it, too.
Favorite book to movie adaptation is probably The Godfather.
Thanks for the contest!
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mine would also be gone with the wind i can just watch that over and over and over again as well as reread it constantly thanks for the giveaway
The Godfather or Silence of the Lambs
I really liked Stephen King’s the Green Mile. It was so true to the book
Thanks
I also love Gone With the Wind, but two other favorites include Remains of the Day and Ang Lee’s Sense & Sensibility, both wonderful adaptations. Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
I think my favorite book to film adaptation would be To Kill A Mockingbird. I think they did a very good job capturing the spirit of the book and Gregory Peck is wonderful as Atticus.
I haven’t read Coraline so I would love to before I saw the movie.
My favorite book to movie is The Notebook
I loved the Twilight book to movie…I enjoyed them both!
My favorite is “To Kill a Mockingbird” – the movie stayed true to the book, and in my opinion, no one else will ever be Atticus Finch – Gregory Peck defined that role.
I would have to say Breakfast at Tiffany’s is my favorite adaptation. Although I do think the way the Harry Potter movies aged with the characters was really effective. It was one of the more interesting aspects of the books and I thought the transition to movie would be difficult.
I’d so love a chance to win this book.
I really liked Message In a Bottle. It was a wonderful book and I thought the movie did well (=
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Hmmm. The first one that comes to mind is Miss Pettigrew – the film captured the book so well. I’d love to win this! I’ve read it, but my copy was from the library.
My all-time favorite book-to-movie adaptation is The Hours. Book and movie are equally beautiful.
My favorite is probably the Harry Potter movies. I have to view them as something separate from the books bc they are so different but I love them so much.
My favorite is the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. They just captured all the wonder of the books for me!
Best book-to-movie? Hands down, Joyce Maynard’s To Die For. The ending has this sight gag that just WORKED on film. No words needed.
No need to enter me, though. You know I like to talk about books!
And I like to say thanks for the e-mail, so I know to post this over at Win a Book. I try to lurk via my reader, but it’s easily overwhelmed anymore!
What a cool give-away! My favorite book to movie adaptation to date would be Twilight!! Loved it 🙂
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I’m another vote for Harry Potter! My daughter loves all things magical, and her reaction is always great, lol. Thanks!
I think a great book to movie would be “The Golden Compass” or “The Lord of the Rings”. There is also Anne Rice’s “Interview with a vampire”, or Stephen Kings “Carrie” and “The Shining”. Both of Kings movies would be the earlier adaptions, the more updated versions…not so much. Most of King’s movies fall short of the books. The two listed in the here are the exceptions to the rule. Thanks for this opportunity, please enter me in this drawing. Indigo
The first one to come to mind is the Lord of the Rings. All the others that come to mind, I just think, “meh”.
Mine is The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks!
My favorite movie adaption is She’s the Man. I seriously think that it is a great adaption of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
Charlottes Web is one of my all time favorites. I also loved P.S. I love you, and The Notebook. Thanks for entering me!
wow, awesome contest. i’d have to say howls moving castle. it was the best animated film i’ve ever seen.
-amy
I’m going to have to agree with the Harry Potter answers. Once I allowed myself to get past some of the missing information, they are quite magical.
Wow, this is great. I’ve been meaning to read Coraline for a while now. I’d have to say that my favorite book-to-movie adaptation is High Fidelity.
Please enter me in the drawing. My favorite adaptation is Memoirs of a Geisha, the cinematography is just magnificent.
Like I need another book to read, but I’ve been wanting this one! I would have to say my favorite book to movie adaptation has been, The Shining. The movie was just as haunting as the book. I try to read the books before the movies, and most of the time I am disappointed. The books are usually always better.
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I would have to say either Stephen King’s the Green Mile or The Bone Collector
At the top of my list is Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” Thanks for a great giveaway!
You know, I used to have a copy of Coraline, but I think I let a student have it when I quit teaching… Silly me.
I’d have to say my favorite book-to-movie adaptation is Sense & Sensibility (w/ Emma Thompson). I saw the movie before I read the book and after I read the book, I felt that I hadn’t gained much new insight at all. I’m rather sorry, though, that I Bookcrossed the book, because after taking a grad class on early women writers, I’d like to read it again. (I have a much better appreciation for Jane Austen’s work now.)
I really enjoyed reading “I Capture the Castle” and then seeing the movie. They did a great job with the casting for that film.
Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
Does The Importance of Being Earnest count, as a play? I don’t generally like adaptations, although I liked Coraline. Maybe Ella Enchanted, I liked that movie better than the book!
I would love to win this book; even though the book was better than the movie, I did enjoy the Joy Luck Club book to movie adaptation.
Twilight. I’m usually not impressed when they turn a book into a movie but I really enjoyed Twilight.
I’d say Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I definitely like the original, Gene Wilder version better.
I’ve already got this book, so don’t enter me! I have to answer the question, though. I have two particular favorite adaptations: About a Boy and The Remains of the Day. They’re completely different types of book, but the adaptations were brilliantly done, in my humble opinion. I’ve watched both many, many times.
I think it would be the Godfather, I loved the book and they made a great movie out of it.
Wow, there are SO many book-to-movie adaptations that are done reeeally well. Um but I think hands down it would be The Lord of the Rings. Just because there is so much to encompass and Peter Jackson did it amazingly!
My favorite movie to book adaptation-that’s hard because there’s so many but I guess I would say – It- by Stephen King. And please count me in on the Coraline giveaway. Thanks : D
The first Harry Potter movie — it stuck fairly close to the book. Thanks.
I vote for Kenneth Branagh’s version of “Much Ado About Nothing” – honestly, with that cast, how can you go wrong??
I love the first Harry Potter movie because it was so true to the book. As the later movies came out they had to cut a lot from the plots because the books are so huge and involve so much more. I still love the later movies, but I like the first movie the best. I also think that they did an excellent job of choosing actors to reflect the characters in the book, especially Professor Snape.
Wow! Enter me, please!!! =) My favorite movie-to-book adaptation has to be Charlotte’s Web. It was the first book I ever bought with my own money, and I thought the movie was absolutely neat in how it captured the friendship and relationship between Wilbur and Charlotte. Not to mention, my son loved the movie too.
I’m not entering, but I just had to say this is a fantastic giveaway!!!
My favorite book to move adaptation is Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice.
Valorie
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I’ve always loved Little Princess with Shirley Temple.
I love the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, I think I notices 3 MINOR differences, but other than that stayed true to my vision of the book
I’m really old….Gone With the Wind!
The best book-to-movie adaptation.. hmm, that’s difficult, but I’d have to say I really enjoyed both Holes and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. (This is also because I read mainly YA and can’t really think of other adaptations.) Both remained mostly faithful to the book while, in a sense, “making the story their own”. Plus, they were both well directed.
Great giveaway! My favorite book to movie adaptation is Lord of the Rings because the movies are actually a lot better than the books!
Great giveaway and I love the cover of the book. My favourite movie adaptation is Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix. I didn’t really like the book, so I was a little worried when I went to see the movie, but I found that it was better than the book. And while Harry was still annoying, I understood it better seeing it on the screen, then reading it.
Thanks!
~ Popin
Please include me in your giveaway. Favorite book to movie – Twilight.
Thanks
Debbie
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No need to sign me up for this one. I blogged about it here:
http://teddyrose.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-weeks-giveaways-galore_28.html
What a great giveaway. Would love to win this book. Thank you for the giveaway.
My fave is Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men…they may not have followed 100% but they were a good idea from the books. Thank you.
I would love to win a copy of this book so I’ll keep my fingers crossed … I see there is a lot of competition!
My favorite book to movie adaptation would have to be “Room With A View.” So often, I think the movie falls short of the book, but in this case, I think they were equally wonderful and true to each other!
Anne of Green Gables. 🙂 And Harry Potter! I would love to read this – haven’t seen the movie yet!
Right now I’d have to say “The Reader” is my most fave book to movie. I loved the book and read it many years ago, the movie I saw recently and I really enjoyed it as well!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Darby
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So many entries, but I want this book so bad.
Let’s see…I’m not really sure honestly. It’s easier to talk about ones you DIDN’T like as much isn’t it?
I really do like the harry potter ones though. i believe they stick pretty close to things, and i dont’ mind changes…books and movies are seperate things honestly and it’s fun to see new things in the film.
-Lauren
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My favorite is Nights in Rodanthe!!
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The Lord of the Rings all the way! I love them!:) I also love all of the Harry Potters!
The Green Mile by Stephen King. My son is not fond of reading and I love it. However when The Green Mile movie came out he loved it. I didn’t watch the dvd with him because I told him I read the book. He talked of the movie, I’d mention the book. Finally I got him interested enough to read it to see if he could find any differences. And I watched the movie so we could discuss the similarities and differences. Now we do that with any adaptations we find.
I love Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and his other book Choke which recently became a film. I’d love a copy of Coraline!
I’m in :).
My favorite adaptation is Stardust, to be honest. The book was cute and the movie was cute (although the movie wasn’t as dark).
Thanks for the cool giveaway (email: arconna at yahoo dot com)
Oh! I want this SO bad! I actually don’t own any of his books (but I’m so buying The Graveyard Book) and Coraline is one I really want to read too.
You had to pick one of the most difficult questions for me to answer didn’t you lol? I LOVE books that were made into movies and although I’ll change my mind in a matter of minutes my favorite right this second is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. I have yet to see one of the movie adaptations I didn’t like.
I love the Princess Bride, it’s a classic in our house
I guess my favorite would be Dr. Zhivago.
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My favorite book to movie adaptation is ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. Dark, I know. Enter me in the giveaway please. I’ve been wanting to read this book. Thank you!
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Hi, I was given an assignment to read “To Kill A Mocking bird” in junior high school. The book made such an impression on me that to this day, it is my favorite classic book. The movie is my favorite adaptation of a book to movie. Please enter me in your marvelous book giveaway drawing.
Many thanks…..Cindi
My favorite would be The outsiders.
There are so many book to movie adaptations that I love, but what comes to mind first is Clueless, adapted from Jane Austen’s Emma. Thanks for entering me!
I’m going to have to go with Shane as my favorite.
I’m generally not really that excited about book to movie adaptations, but I thought The Hunt for Red October was very well done. And I’m greatly looking forward to Watchmen (does graphic novel to movie count?). I haven’t read Coraline yet but the movie was great.
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One of my favorite books to movies is “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” – which started life as a children’s book by Ian Fleming (better known for the James Bond books). The Disney adaptation was very true to the book and captured the wonder Fleming wrote about.
Thanks for the neat give-away!
This one is tough…hmmm
The recently redone Sense and Sensibility on Masterpiece Classics. And I think Twilight was done very well also.
My favorite book-to-movie is an old one: the Outsiders. I saw it in school and felt like the movie was replaying the book right out of my head. It was exactly as I’d pictured it, and followed all the dialog precisely.
I vote for *The Namesake*; the movie was true to the book.
Thanks for the opportunity, I haven’t read anything by Gaiman!
I would love to read this book, and I think my daughter will, too, ina year or two. After she forgets how creeped out she was by the movie previews. Thanks for entering me.
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I haven’t seen the move or read the book, so I’d love to have a chance to read this one!
Oh, and I love the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice too, as several other commenters mentioned.
This sounds great!
My favorite adaptation is Gone With the Wind.
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Oh, I’d love to read this book! I don’t know what my favourite adaptation was…I did enjoy The Kite Runner.
Thanks for hosting this!
Gone with the Wind. Clark Gable and Vivan Leigh were Rhett and Scarlett.
Thanks for the giveaway!
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I won’t watch a movie until after I’ve read the book. One of my absolute favorite adaptations is Lonesome Dove. Awesome!
My favorite book to movie adaptation has to be The Stand by Stephen King. The book is amazing and the movie didn’t offend me or screw up too badly. I’m one of those “the movie will never live up to the book” people, but The Stand was a decent adaptation.
I would love to be entered! My fave book to movie book would probably be all the Books from the Ann Series by LM Montgomery
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To Kill a Mockingbird. There is no comparison, don’t you agree, K?
I hope I win! Woot!
You must have a better working relationship with HarperCollins. LOL! They wouldn’t answer my emails when I asked to do a review giveaway to correspond with the movie. Would love to own a copy…great, strange book. Book to movie= Little Women. Always wished I was Jo (0r Katherine Hepburn!)
My favorite would have to be The Lord of the Rings. Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me.
My favorite book to movie is “The Prince of Tides” by Pat Conroy…AND “Misery” by Stephen King (I couldn’t say just one!!) ….Both movies were close to the books (some of the more explicit scenes weren’t in the movies) , but overall loved them!! Please enter me…REALLY would love to win this book!! Hope to see the movie this week!! And it’s my birthday Friday…does that help!!?? hahahah
I have too many, so my most recent favorite is Secret Life of Bees. It was very well done…almost better than the book!
Stacie
My favorite book to movie adaptation… hmm… I can tell you a couple that were my LEAST favorites: Hearts in Atlantis was a horrible pale and senseless rendering of what I thought was a really good book, and I think it would have been impossible to take The Kite Runner, which so deeply lived in the mental realms, into a movie with any of it’s power left.
But… you want favorite… I think The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was fairly good and stayed close to the story (it did wander off the ranch in a spot or two… Caspian, on the other hand, was in another county, let alone “off the ranch”). I thought Atonement was a much better movie than book, as well as Nim’s Island.
I’d have to say, though, my FAVORITE is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton-style. Johnny Depp’s Wonka is the right mix of interesting yet weird with whom you’re uncertain of your safety, which is exactly how Dahl described Wonka.
Please enter me! My favorite book to movie adaptation is Pride & Prejudice.
I would say one of my favorites is Dr. Zhivago. I loved the book and they did such a beautiful job of filming the movie, it actually did the book justice.
Stephen King’s Green Mile.
I’m in there with The Lord of the Rings as well … it really brought those books to life. Most other book/movie combos seem like two entirely different entities to me. I don’t like to link them together (like Alice in Wonderland and Gone With the Wind). I’m in for Coraline!
Ohh, I have been itching to read this!! My all time fave adaptation is Gone With the Wind, but more recently I loved The Devil Wears Prada. Harry Potter ranks up there, too!!
I would have to say “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R Tolkien. Elves are so hot, lol. Thank you for the giveaway.
I would have to say Stephen King’s the Green Mile…. King has a lot of great books that have been movies though
I had read Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook way before the movie and though most movie adaptations don’t really compare, I thought the movie was really well done and enjoyed it as much as the book. Thanks for the giveaway – I’d LOVE to win this one 🙂
I’m going to have to second what a lot of people have already named, and say that my two favorite adaptations were of two of my favorite books as a kid: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
My favorite book to movie? To Kill A Mockingbird then Bridges of Madison County and most recently The Secret Life of Bees! OK, I know that’s three, but I couldn’t help myself! Thanks for hosting the giveaway!! I hope I win! lol
There are so many good adaptations. My current favourite is “Slumdog Millionarie”.
I’d love to have a copy of Coraline. Please enter me. Thanks.
My favorite book to movie adaptation is probably “Emma”, the version that starred Gwyneth Paltrow. I loved its spirit!
I liked the Harry Potter movies, and thought they did well at getting in the major points of the books. I also like the most recent version of Matilda.
I absolutely loved A Walk to Remember, both the book AND the movie. Both of them made me cry!
And I can’t WAIT to see Coraline!
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Did I already leave a comment on this post? Well, disregard this if I did! And otherwise, I’d love to have it.
I know my chances are slim that I will win a copy of this book, but I would really love the opportunity.
Hmm, favorite book to movie adaptation…that’s a tough one…I think I will go with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the adaptation with Keira Knightley in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet. And Matthew Macfadyen as Darcy is just plain yummy.
Someone mentioned P.S. I Love You, and I have to agree. It’s so moving!
interview with the vampire by anne rice…
please enter me in the contest!
My favorite adaptation would probably be The Notebook, but Maximum Overdrive was fun!
The Shining
I just saw Coraline this week in 3D. 🙂
My favorite book to movie adaptation is The Accidental Tourist.
oh! me me me me me me! I really want to read this one.
ok, my favorite book to movie adaption would be The Lorde of the Rings trilogy. I think those were done very well.
No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
Ian McEwan’s Atonement. I thought the film was an excellent adaptation of a great novel.
Gone with the wind.