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Dear <\/em>Paris Review,<\/em><\/p>\n

When I suggest he read something, my dad always says, I\u2019m waiting for the movie to come out, just to rankle me. I\u2019ve been meaning to send him a stack of films that are truly good adaptations. What should I send?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A Rankled Amateur<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear Rankled,<\/p>\n

It may not be your father\u2019s speed, but you should definitely check out Gabrielle<\/em>, Patrice Ch\u00e9reau\u2019s 2005 adaptation of The Return<\/em>, by Joseph Conrad. It stars Isabelle Huppert as the adulterous wife of a newspaper publisher in fin de si\u00e8cle Paris. It got a C\u00e9sar for best costumes. The sets are terrific. There\u2019s one shot of\u00a0a bathroom, and that\u2019s all I remember\u2014the bathroom, a normal bathroom, very much like the bathroom in the house where I grew up, which I had never seen until then as an historical artifact. It was that kind of film. It made you feel the past as presence.<\/p>\n

More\u00a0obviously, there are Rebecca<\/em> and Don\u2019t Look Now<\/em>,\u00a0two adaptations so perfect that you might think Daphne du Maurier\u2019s books just adapted themselves\u2014until, that is, you see either version of My Cousin Rachel<\/em>: the 1952 adaptation starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton (as what has to be the least believable male virgin in the history of nonpornographic cinema) or the 2017 remake starring Rachel Weisz (and really only Rachel Weisz). In this new version, the ending has been rewritten so it doesn\u2019t make any sense, and for some reason, even though the story\u2019s\u00a0set two hundred years ago, the men keep going around without their cravats\u2014as if they\u2019d just got off the magic airplane to Cornwall from LAX\u2014and everyone seems to have been infected with a twenty-first-century case of potty mouth. It\u2019s odd enough to hear the aged butler yell at some local yeomen about the \u201cfucking holly,\u201d while they\u2019re trying to deck the ancestral hall\u2014but when a little girl mouths the word bitch<\/em>\u00a0at Rachel Weisz, in church no less, I reach for the soap.<\/p>\n

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Dear <\/em>Paris Review, <\/em><\/p>\n

I am currently commuting into Manhattan from Connecticut. It is a temporary situation, thankfully, but until the day I cross the GW Bridge in a U-Haul, I am faced with almost four hours of travel Monday through Friday. I hope to spend that time reading. I need recommendations that balance several factors: stimulating and engaging without being too rigorous (the frequent stop announcements and children hyped up on candy from Times Square provide a pretty steady hum of distraction), and it should probably have a relatively low page count, for the sake of my chiropractic health.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Metro-North Odysseus<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear\u00a0Metro,<\/p>\n

Gripping, easy, and short: Have you tried Simenon? I haven\u2019t, but people are always telling me\u00a0I should, and the books are appealingly thin (appealingly, if you don\u2019t like mysteries). Slightly off the beaten path, free associating from your description of the train,\u00a0there is Denis Johnson\u2019s novella Train Dreams<\/em>. Some connoisseurs say it\u2019s his best work\u2014it\u2019s definitely accessible\u2014and if you\u2019re a subscriber, you already have it on your phone. We published it in issue no. 162<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0book that occurs to me, when I read the words \u201cchildren hyped up,\u201d is Mary Robison\u2019s short novel Why Did I Ever<\/em>, about … well, it\u2019s about a screenwriter who is also a mother, and it hasn\u2019t got a plot exactly, but I still remember the night I stayed up reading it until dawn. It was Mother\u2019s Day, 2001. I think it will hold your attention.<\/p>\n

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Dear <\/em>Paris Review,<\/em><\/p>\n

I like listening to books on tape. Because I haven\u2019t owned a tape deck since 1998, what I really mean is that I like listening on my phone to books read to me by professional voice actors. I listen mostly on long-distance train rides and on the stationary bike at the Fourteenth Street Y. Some books are great on tape. Some are awful. <\/em>Howards End was a winner, so was <\/em>Remains of the Day and <\/em>The Good Soldier. <\/em>Broom of the System was impossible. I can\u2019t just listen to Edwardian England\u2014I\u2019m strange enough as it is. Where to now?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/em><\/p>\n

An Old Sport<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dear Sport,<\/p>\n

I put this question to my brother-in-law\u2014or really, since we\u2019re doing radical technological honesty, I texted him. He\u2019s\u00a0listened to more audiobooks than anyone I know. The other day in the car we flipped through half a dozen\u00a0different performances of Moby-Dick\u2014<\/em>just the first line:\u00a0\u201cCall me Ishmael\u201d; \u201cCall me<\/em> Ishmael\u201d; \u201cCall me …\u00a0Ishmael\u201d<\/em>; et cetera. Charlie\u2019s judgments were swift, and they were harsh. Just now he texted me back \u201clolita j. irons\u201d in under thirty seconds. I trust him.<\/p>\n

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