Adaptations usually need a goal in mind to work. The goal of The Hours? To be a music video for depression. The goal of Bridget Jones's Diary? To not be its sequel. Most of the time, though, adaptations have no goal in mind other than tempting book-lovers to part with their money.

On that note, filmjerk.com, having read David Hare's script for The Corrections, implores you to LoJack your wallet:

A script has never gotten me so down in my life. Maybe it was the intense, four-day experience I had with the novel. Maybe it's that a lot of The Corrections cuts close to the bone for me. But mostly it was a feeling of despair. Here's this terrific piece of literature and the man adapting it has no idea who these people are or what the story symbolizes. Anyone, even a first-time writer, could have delivered a script as good or better than this one. It feels like such a waste. It feels like Hare wrote this with the thought in his mind that the script would never get made.