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Book Riot - The Podcast

The Bookish Movies of 1999

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Looking back at one of the great movie years for book lovers: 1999. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. For more industry news, sign up for our Today in Books daily newsletter! Check out the Book Riot Podcast Book Page on Thriftbooks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the book grant podcast. I'm Jeff O'Neill. And I'm Rebecca Shinsky. And today we are talking about the bookish movies of 1999. So this is you've heard us do power rankings before can have a similar format

0:49.1

But of movies and I think we talked about this Rebecca and I

0:53.4

They didn't have to be adaptations necessarily, but just as long as they were

0:57.3

bookish in some form or other is that right I hope so because I picked a couple that weren't sure

1:01.0

I don't remember if we it's been so long since we had this idea that I don't think we made rules for it.

1:08.0

But I think it was back when the Ripley series hit Netflix earlier this year.

1:12.0

That came out in 99.

1:13.6

We were noticing that 1999 was particularly stacked

1:17.3

with bookish movies and adaptations.

1:19.8

I think all of mine are adaptations. I think I've only got one that's not and it's a notable one and I can talk about why.

1:27.8

So maybe it's the exception that proves to the rule that they all will be, but we have not consulted about them at all. We should have a long list. I'm sure that somewhere longer than 10, probably a lot of overlap. I guess in some most power ranking of books years I kind of feel like I know where

1:46.8

what books we're gonna be talking about and there might be a little bit of

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