Do you guys know any books that feels like an entire movie pitch?

I don't mean this in a good way. I mean books which seems to be an after thought, and reading it makes it feel clear that it is just a step towards the real goal, a movie adaptation.

I've read Ready Player One and that thing is just not fun to read whenever a flurry of pop culture references shows up. It seems like those books that are only good with a concept visualization.

Or when I read the "Divergent", partly anyways, and the writing was not interesting enough to invest on the action packed events that is going on.

This thread is not for books that are ripe for movie adaptations, this is specifically books that are clearly just a pre-production script with more words. The kind that are baiting Hollywood to adapt it and make a franchise out of it without being an outstanding book to begin with.

I read divergent and you were right, the reading is very heavy and not in a good way.

I remenber reading somewhere that happen because movies and videogames have afect how people write things, make more visual to the point it look there is a camara with the chararters.

Timeline was basically a movie pitch. I found it very disappointing as a novel. The same could be said of many of Chrichton's novels.

That's easy.

Andy Weir's first book, "The Martian".

I disagree. The Martian was clearly Andy Weir playing around with the idea of an astronaut stranded on Mars and what would be required to survive that accidentally turned into a novel, and then into a movie.

Ditto. The book is whole and complete enough to stand on it own. It doesn't feel like a movie pitch.