“Not as good as the book.” That is the standard dismissal of movies based on novels. It is an easy way to shortcut conversation and proclaim, “I read the book!” But books and movies are very different media.Last week’s best-selling books, according to the Publishers Weekly:
FICTION
1 “
The Racketeer
”
by John Grisham
2 “
Gone Girl
” by Gillian Flynn
3“
Threat Vector
” by Tom Clancy, Mark Greaney
4“
The Casual Vacancy
”
by J.K. Rowling
5“
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
” by James Patterson
6“
Notorious Nineteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel
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by Janet Evanovich
7“
The Forgotten
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by David Baldacci
8 “
Cross Roads
” by William Paul Young
9“
The Last Man
” by Vince Flynn
10 “
The Black Box
”
by Michael Connelly
NON-FICTION
1“
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
” by Bill O’Reilly, Martin Dugard
2“
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
” by Jon Meacham
3 “
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden
” by Mark Owen,
Kevin Maurer
4“
Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust
” by Ina Garten
5“
Guinness World Records 2013
”
by Guinness World Records
6“
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t
”
by Stephen Colbert
7“
Wheat Belly Cookbook: 150 Recipes to Help You Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
”
by William Davis
8“
I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak
” by Joel Osteen
9“
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
” by Anne Lamott
10 “
The Signal and the Noise
” by Nate Silver
