Popular books that were made into terrible movies

To be fair, it was a bold choice to adapt Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette." The book is told through a series of letters, emails, and other pieces of ephemera. Still, Richard Linklater was directing, and they had the amazing Cate Blanchett to play Bernadette. Despite that, the movie landed with a thud and didn't even make its budget back in the box office.