The Beach (novel) The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000, it was adapted into a film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In a cheap hotel on the Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young American backpacker, meets a mentally disturbed Scotsman going by the
Smile (The Beach Boys album) of the "Smile" sessions are also dramatized in the 2014 Wilson biopic "Love and Mercy", featuring Paul Dano as Brian Wilson and Max Schneider as Van Dyke Parks. The 1993 science fiction novel "Glimpses" by Lewis Shiner contains a chapter in which the protagonist travels back in time to November 1966 and helps Wilson complete "Smile". References to "Smile", its bootlegs, and the Beach Boys are made in the 2006 novel "Eat the Document" by Dana Spiotta. Smile (The Beach Boys album) Smile (stylized as SMiLE) is an unfinished album by American rock band the Beach Boys that was projected