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. […] Here are 10 books that we think should never have been committed to celluloid.

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Everything I’ve ever wanted to know, I’ve learned from scifi movies — especially when it comes to surviving the end of days. Be it a vengeful Mother Nature, plague, monsters, animal packs or the undead, any kind of doomsday , I’ll be ready for. The key is to follow the steps of past scifi characters (or learn from their mistakes.)

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Top 10 Date Movies
Top 10 Robot Buddies
10 Awful Matrix “Bullet Time” Spoofs
The 13 Best Horror Movies of All Time
19 stellar cinematic one-scene wonders
7 Hit Shows that Started in the Summer
Ten Marvel Characters Who Need their Own Movies
Most Shameless Uses Of Product Placement In Film
Top Five Rare Horror & Science Fiction Films You’ve Probably Never Seen

Top 10: Ass Models
Top 13 Sci-Fi Babes
The Hottest Lap Dance Videos
Top 10 Hottest Costa Rican Models
The Top 10 Faves to win Miss Universe 2008
13 Hottest Women Wolverine Has Slept With
50 Hot Women, All Dressed as Wonder Woman
The 10 Hottest Videos Of Tennis Babes In Slow Motion

With those rules in mind, we’ve put together a list of twelve excellent books to take to the beach (or lake, or mountains) with you this season.

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Television’s 11 Worst Bosses
The 15 Worst Reality TV Shows Ever Made
7 Great TV Pilots That Never Got Off The Ground
5 Classic Guy Infomercial Gadgets of Yesteryear
The 10 Greatest Celebrity Talk Show Fights Of All Time
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5 Classics Written Under the Influence
5 Famous Authors and Why They Were Perverts
7 Reasons Why Scifi Book Series Outstay Their Welcomes

13 Rule-Breaking Films
Five Science Fiction Movies That Get the Science Right
The 25 Best “Best Of” Albums
5 Rap Songs That Don’t Make the Grade
10 Most Ridiculously Awesome Snoop Dogg Moments

The 10 Worst In-Flight Movies
7 Unpopular Themes for Hit Shows
The Seven Greatest Movies with Cop Out Endings
The Greatest Science Fiction Gadgets
5 Infamous Abandonments Used in Famous Movies

Top 10 Renewable Tech Gadgets
5 Garage Inventions That Might Outperform Their Big-Name Predecessors
10 Tech Products We could Use in Tough Times
5 Sources for Free Computer Technology Education Online
13 More Things Your Auto Mechanic Won’t Tell You
74 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition
21 Ways To Eradicate Campiness From Science Fiction

Some of these books are well-known, and you will no doubt have heard of them. Others made it onto the list for exploring scientific discoveries that are less well-known but are nevertheless inspiring and mind-blowing.

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10 Terrible Movies by 10 Great Directors
8 Fictional Characters Who Died Too Early
Most Memorable TV Ads of the ’70s
10 Tips for Your First HDTV Experience
Top 10 Guitarists You Don’t Know
6 Cool Sci-Fi TV Show Concepts You Probably Didn’t See (but they made them anyway)
The Top Five Geek TV Shows that Fail to Live Up to Their Awesome Opening Credits

Even worse is that in today’s hi-definition age, we revisit movies that may have blown our proverbial socks off in the theater, but displayed on the unmerciful resolutions that plague today’s plasma screens, they look abysmal. In hindsight, some of these hold up better than others. Here are a few that don’t.

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We found ten real-world examples of our favorite futuristic sci-fi gadgets.  We’ve dug deep to bring you some truly unique gadgets  that seemed to be inspired by the big screen.

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From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… Telegraph present the ultimate reading list.

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