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For probably the last 2 or 3 years, almost every book I've read is because I really enjoyed the movie or the tv series. I find it frustrating to plow through a book which I think will be interesting and turns out to be a dud. I've read the Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood series, the Percy Jackson series, Game of Thrones series, The Walking Dead comic series, The Ruins, and a few others that escape me.
I can't be the only one who does this. What have you watched that you had to read?
I can't be the only one who does this. What have you watched that you had to read?
The Walking Dead. Love the TV series. Love the comics.
I tried reading the Sookie Stackhouse books. I made it about 3/4 of the way through the first book before I gave up. Just couldn't get into it. The TV show is ok. I liked the first season quite a lot more than the last few.
I read some of Robert Parker's Jesse Stone books, because I liked the TV movies. The early books were good. After that ... not so much. Seemed to me like Parker just started writing outlines for the next TV movie.
I first read DUNE in junior high because I heard about the movie. I ended up loving the book and hating the movie.
I saw Lonesome Dove before I read the book. I loved both.
I don't understand that. You'd rather a person not a read after watching a movie?
My story:
I was young and thought James Fenimore Cooper wrote gory crap for boys. After I saw The Last of the Mohicans, I checked out the book and subsequently read the majority of his works.
I had never heard of Bleak House when I found it in the library dvd section, and I absolutely loved it so I read it and loved the book. Same for Middlemarch. In fact, that turned me on to George Eliot. My only previous experience with her was Silas Marner, which is absolutely not my favorite.
I was 6 years old when the North and South series came out and 10 years old when the Lonesome Dove series was made. I read the books later on because I remembered and loved the movies. I have read the majority of the works of both John Jakes and Larry McMurtry at this point. All because of a couple of movies.
I had never heard of Horatio Hornblower before seeing the films, nor had a heard of Elizabeth Gaskell. Maybe I live under a rock. I'm sure glad I found the movies because I don't know that I ever would have found the books on my own.
Why? Books are no more (or less) inherently valid as a storytelling form than novels. A good movie is better art than a bad book. I'd much rather spend my time watching a Martin Scorsese movie than reading a James Patterson novel.
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