Novel to Film

One novel that I would love to see on celluloid is Ryne Douglas Pearson's Top Ten. I was first told about the novel by my older brother in the mid 90's when in fact it was scheduled to be filmed. The film unfortunatly never came about. The story of Top Ten I found to be really intriguing. The story in one sentence is about a serial killer whose on the bottom of the FBI's ten most wanted list and he wants to be number one so he starts to hunt down and kill those who are on the list above him. Now if that doesn't hook you I don't know what would. I hadn't been this hooked to want to read a novel since Richard Mathesons's I Am Legend. (This also happens to be another novel to film I'd like to see.) I kept on waiting to see if this movie would ever come about but it never has, so I wanted to at least track down the book to read.

This unfortunately became a bigger challenge than expected. First, all I knew was the book was called Top Ten. I had no idea who wrote the dam thing. It took me awhile just to discover who the author was. Just try typing Top Ten in a book word search I would come up with like 600 matches. Once I found the author I discovered the book was out of print, so the only place I would ever get it would be at a used book store or online. At the time I was never one to buy things online so I had but one option. I searched heavily for 3 years to find the novel but it wasn't until the beginning of last year that I found it. I had almost given up on looking for it but on one of my trips to visit my bro in Edmonton I found it in a book outlet store. I almost didn't even go in the store but I had some time to kill. I was absolutly shocked to find it. Suprisingly after wanting to read it for so long I didn't make a quick read of the thing. I think I read it over a few months. I'm in no way qualified to say what is a great novel but I know what I like and I would say I did enjoy Top Ten. Hopefully they will eventually get to putting this on film.