Shogun Review: Are Books Replacing Show Writers?

In case you haven't noticed, there has been an explosion in books being adapted to television and movies lately.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, in fact, it's a great way for writers to have financial success and stability in their writing careers.

This practice has become so common, Reese Witherspoon has an entire business model based on not just publishing books, but gobbling up the film rights to those books, essentially giving her an near unlimited pipeline of content.

One of the most recent adaptations that we were excited about is Shogun, which is based on the 1970s novel by the same name, written by James Clavell.

If you haven't read Shogun, it's an epic adventure, smartly written with a swath of complex characters and plot lines.

While both Andy and Tony have been enjoying Shogun (out now on Hulu), we certainly have our critiques as well.

In this episode we also talk about our favorite book to screen adaptations thus far, and which books we'd love to see on the big screen.

Here is a list of all of the books mentioned in the episode.

Shogun by James Clavell

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Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

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Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector

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Lost Empress by Sergio De La Pava

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A Bended Circuity by Robert Stickley

A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava

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Passion According to GH by Calrice Lispector

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Dispatches by Michael Herr

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Musashi by Eiji Yushikawa

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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

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King Rat by James Clavell

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Tai-Pan by James Clavell

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Noble House by James Clavel

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Whirlwind by James Clavell

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Gai-Jin by James Clavell

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A Song of Fire and Ice by George RR Martin

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White Noise by Don DeLillo

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

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Jaws by Peter Benchley

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Jurassic Park by Michael Cricthon

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The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu

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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nyguen

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Dune by Frank Herbert

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Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

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The Wager by David Grann

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Hold the Dark by William Geraldi

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Leave the World Behind with Rumaan Alam

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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon

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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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Underworld by Don DeLillo

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JR by William Gaddis

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The Crying of Lot 49

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Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

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Satantago by Laszlo Krasznahorki

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Laszlo Krasznahorki

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

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Last  Boat out of Shanghai by Hele Zia

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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Love and Terror by William Herrick

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