3 Book Series I'd like to See on Film

There are many books which are very good but would not translate well onto the big screen. Then there are a small group of other novels and books series which are so fantastic or so action-packed or so romantic that they cry out to become movies. What follows is my Top 3 list of books I think would do well on the silver screen.

Joseph Delaney wrote a series of books known as The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (AKA The Spook's Apprentice/The Wardstone Chronicles) series, about a young boy who is the seventh son of a seventh son and becomes apprenticed to the local "Spook". According to the series a "Spook" is sort of like a combination ghost hunter and exorcist. He is the person in charge of getting rid of various supernatural beings that may show up in nearby towns. Only the 7^th son of a 7^th son may become a Spook. The creatures and battles that take place in the series are perfect for a film adaptation. The books provide great detail and paints vivid pictures in the mind of all that takes place, from capturing a bogart to becoming trapped in a dark cell with an evil witch. The books are action-packed, but even when the Spook and his apprentice are not fighting the paranormal, there are plenty of training scenes that would make excellent movie montages.

Jasper Fforde has created several series of books, but the one that would be best on screen is probably the Thursday Next series, which begins with The Eyre Affair. These books are about an alternate world, where our society did not progress exactly as it has done in our world. Instead of airplanes, there are airships (blimps) and "gravitubes" (tubes which shoot people straight from one point on the Earth through the planet to the other side) for people to get around in. Also, the fictional characters from books can not only come out of their books and exist in society, but real people can visit books, and there is an entire section of the police force dedicated to crimes involving literature. The world of Thursday Next is both amazingly like and dislike our world and the adventure and fantastic events would, for the most part, translate well as a movie.

J.A. Konrath's Whiskey Sour is about a female detective whose name is Jack Daniels. The entire series is virtually nonstop action, but Whiskey, where Jack is first introduced is probably the best of them all. Jack is a great female lead who is neither a stereotypically feminine girly girl, nor an overcompensating butch policewoman. She's funny and smart, and gets on a serial killer's bad side, drawing herself, her partner, her ex-partner and others into a situation of high dramatic tension that would play well as a blockbuster movie.