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"I thought they were unadaptable," Reid says frankly of her books, which she first published anonymously online, disguised as fan fiction.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026

It’s an absurdist portrait of America on the verge of self-destruction adapted from a novel considered unadaptable.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

So maybe its backers simply need to keep reminding people how Frank Herbert’s novel was considered unadaptable ... and Jon Spaihts, Eric Roth and Villeneuve did it.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

In short, it felt like "The Wheel of Time" had to make some really difficult choices to adapt a basically unadaptable story.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2022

But he had proved himself incompetent, unadaptable, a stick, a pedantic incapable.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John