text: Books and movies have gone hand-in-hand since Hollywood's very beginnings. Some of its greatest triumphs--"The Godfather," "Gone With The Wind," "The Silence Of The Lambs"--have their origin in books. And, some of Hollywood's worst mistakes have come from books: remember "The Scarlet Letter" and Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Okay, now forget again. 
   
   But, with all this harmony between page and screen, what about those books that have never been adapted? Is there such a thing as an "unfilmable" book when even "Naked Lunch" was made into a movie? Is it true that some books tell a story that no matter which way Hollywood cuts it, it just won't work as a movie? 
   
   In an attempt to answer that question, we looked for the books that we thought Hollywood wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. 
   
   What books have you read that would never work on the screen? What adaptation are you praying never happens? Name your favorite unfilmables below! 
   
   Unfilmable Books Unfilmable Books ||||| Beating out droves of Hollywood ingenues, Carey Mulligan has landed the coveted role of Daisy Buchanan in Baz Luhrmann's highly-anticipated adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby.'The 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' star was chosen for the role over a long list of It girls vying for the part, including Blake Lively , Natalie Portman, and Amanda Seyfried Luhrmann confirmed his decision yesterday evening, telling Deadline , "I was thrilled to pick up the phone an hour ago to the young Oscar-nominated British actress Carey Mulligan and say to her: 'Hello, Daisy Buchanan.' "Mulligan learned of Luhrmann's casting choice at last night's CFDA awards in New York, an event also attended by 'Gatsby' hopeful Blake Lively.
target: – The Great Gatsby is about to get the celluloid treatment again. And while we can only hope that Baz Luhrmann does it justice, a great book does not automatically equal a great film. (The Scarlett Letter much?) The Huffington Post lists 15 novels that it considers "unfilmable": Pale Fire, by Vladamir Nabokov: Truly a riddle, this footnote-ridden book revolves around a 999-line poem. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf: It's basically six monologues, making the book one big monologue. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon: It's not the book, so much as the author, that's the issue here. A famously private recluse, HuffPo can't imagine him giving anyone the movie rights. Maus by Art Spiegelman: This Holocaust-era biography/graphic novel about Spiegelman's father depicts the Jews as mice and the Nazis as cats ... just too serious for a cartoon. Notes HuffPo, it's tough when your pitch is: "Think Schindler's List, but with dogs and reindeer." Click here for the complete list, which, of course, includes a book by James Joyce.