A NEW film of Wuthering Heights starring Margot Robbie is essentially a 1990s straight-to-video erotic thriller set in Yorkshire, but not every book is a cinematic bonkbuster ready to happen:

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, published 1925

The author is morally and politically toxic. The bulk of it is ranting about racial ideology. But most importantly, unless you’re a Mitford sister, Hitler simply isn’t sexy. Is it the toothbrush moustache, the side parting, the bowel condition, the monorchidism? Is it being the biggest mass murderer of the 20th century? Is it the lederhosen? Is it kind of all of them?

The Bible by various authors, 4th century

It’s got sensual bits like the Song of Solomon, the whole nude Adam and Eve and serpent thing’s right there, but there’s a little too much plague,

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