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The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Series) by Douglas Adams

Based on the 5 books of Adams' "trilogy", The Increasing Innaccurately Named Hitchiker's Trilogy, tells the story of Earthling Arthur Dent who is propelled into a adventure across space after his planet Earth is destroyed to create an intergalactic Highway.

tags (add tags): adventure, aliens, comedy, robots, scifi

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. No one truly knows Gatsby. As Nick Carraway befriends Gatsby and learns more about him, Nick becomes part of Gatsby's plan to accomplish what he moved to Long Island to do, woo away the woman he left during the war.

tags (add tags): drama, remake, romance

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne's emotional, psychological drama revolves around Hester Prynne, who is convicted of adultery in colonial Boston by the civil and Puritan authorities. She is condemned to wear the scarlet letter "A" on her chest as a permanent sign of her sin. The story describes the effort to resolve the torment suffered by Hester and her co-adulterer, the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, in the years after their affair.

tags (add tags): drama, historical, romance

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Based on Twain's Coming of Age novel. Planned as a sequel to Tom Sawyer but ended up being much more adult-themed. About Huck Finn & a runaway slave named Jim, and their voyage down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, all the while meeting some savory and rather unsavory characters.

tags (add tags): adventure, based on book, Huckleberry Finn, kids, Tom Sawyer

Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's existential tragicomedy about two men, Vladimir & Estragon, waiting for a mysterious man named Godot and the man and his servent whom they meet in the meantime.

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