Post #4: Adapting your book

For the book I am reading,(Shoeless Joe by W.P Kinsella) I think a TV series would make most sense.  I think this because throughout the book different plot changes happen and it would be too hard to capture the whole thing in a movie.  It was in fact made into a movie, but I didn't like it very much.  For the TV series to stay as true as can be to the book, the part in the book where the main character builds the baseball field after hearing an "announcer" say "Build it, and he will come."  would need to be the start of the movie.  Some changes would be that the shows would have to be more interesting and intriguing.  Quite frankly, I personally think the book isn't all that exciting unfortunately.  I think adding a scene of Shoeless Joe playing baseball, and showing the black sox scandal.  It is important that the series shows how the main character build only the left field at first, then expands onto the rest of the field.  If there was a soundtrack to the show, I think that it should be old classical music since the story is set in the 1900's, post 1920.