10 Books That Were Better Off on PaperS  Click to view  It's
happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a
few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face
of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable
point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn't
expect. Our eyebrows go up, our lips turn down, and the
disappointment begins. Maybe the wrong director or writer can
curse an otherwise excellent project - or maybe some things were
just never meant to be filmed. Here are 10 books that we think
should never have been committed to celluloid.  10 Books That
Were Better Off on Paper  DUNE by Frank Herbert  There's no
doubt about it: Herbert's Dune is a bona fide classic. It won
the first ever Nebula award and the 1966 Hugo award, and most
consider it to be the best-selling sci-fi novel in history. Set
in a future where a feudal empire controls the planets of the
unvierse, the novel tells the story of young nobleman Paul
Atreides and his family's rule