Scott
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Never read the book. I've found that if I see the movie first, I'm not so interested in the book; well, that's the way I felt after I saw "Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" (good movie) and then started reading the book; I kept thinking, "I'm not interested in these details, just get on with the story already", laugh .
The book is infinitely better than the movie.
I see, heh
Even after I'd seen the movie a dozen times, the book was extremely entertaining. It's written as though the author was abridging a much longer book. There's all these parts where the text is in red, and those are the parts where the author supposedly cut out dozens of pages and reduced them to a couple paragraphs. He'll mention what he cut out and why it was pointless... but in actual fact, he wrote the whole book himself and there never was an unabridged version.
Laugh . If memory serves, I think they make atleast one reference to this type of thing in the movie; "skipping" some parts I think it was, laugh .
I'm currently reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It's been on my reading list for ages, but I was trying to get through Song of Ice and Fire.
I'm still on the second book of Song of Ice and Fire. It's ok, but I got C.S. Friedman's last book in the Magister Trilogy and so I've switched to reading that instead, laugh . Actually, I wouldn't be reading anything on paper if it wasn't for the fact that my mother borrowed my iphone (with my Sudoku on it). Usually about the only time I'll read is when I'm too tired to be on this computer and I'm missing my iphone, laugh . It was different when I lived in the city (Toronto, Canada); then, I'd read a lot when I was travelling here and there on the public transit system.
Which, by the way, is also much better than the show. The show is true to the plot and all, but the details in the book add SO much dimension to the characters.
Honestly, I like the show better, laugh . Maybe I'll feel differently if I keep on reading (and more shows come out to catch up to where I've read), but that's the way I feel about it now.
When a movie comes out for a book, I usually try to read the book first if it looks good. I agree that reading the book after seeing the movie is rarely as satisfying as reading the book and then seeing the movie.
Yeah, I've definitely heard that.
The part that bothers me the most is how, when I read the book after, the characters have the actors' faces in my imagination. That just irks me.
Why? I actually kind of like being able to have a well defined face for a character. This is not to be confused with something done in a way I don't like. I don't know if you've seen any animes (japanese cartoons, they're both films and t.v. series, they're generally much deeper then north american fair), but I saw an anime series (Hellsing), and then I saw a remake of the series; I didn't like the remake that much; I kept thinking, that is -not- how that character is supposed to act, you've mutilated his persona... stopped watching it after the first episode.
Like, when I saw the movie for the first Harry Potter, before the final books were written. Then every time a new book came out, I kept seeing the movie faces when I was reading. I can't even remember what they looked like in my head anymore. That was very disappointing.
I guess I'm not such a fan of imaginary faces, laugh .
Speaking of Harry Potter, my husband watched all the movies... I kept saying "read the books! read the books!" and he was all like "yeah yeah whatever" ... then he finally read the books and was all like "OMG why didn't I read these sooner?? They're so good!!" I didn't even try not to say "I told you so!"
Lol . I read a bit of the first one.. wasn't really my thing. I've been told they get better and all.. I guess they could.. I just.. maybe later, laugh . I've liked the Potter movies I've seen, though they're not on my favourites list. My ex was a real Potter fan, but I guess it wasn't so much for me. I definitely have a favourite scene though; the one where Harry Potter saves himself in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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