Which movies made you want to read the book?
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Which movies made you want to read the book?
I saw the first 3 or 4 movies of the Harry Potter series before i actually started reading the books, and have now read almost each book at least 12 times.
The mists of Avalon is a 3 hrs long movie that i fell in love with and discovered it was based on a book, so i went to my public library and lucky me, they had it. They don't have many books in english in my public library. As i live in Quebec Canada, most books in libraries are french, so i was even more lucky to find it in english. I always prefer reading the original language instead of translations. The book is huge, it takes me 7 days to read if i just do that all day.. in comparison, the 7 Harry Potter books also take me 6-7 days to read them all. I've read the mists of Avalon 3 times so far.
I still haven't read Stephen king's Rose Red but i really want to read it, as they don't have it in my city, but i've seen the movie a couple of time, which is 4 hrs long, so it makes me wonder how big the book must be haha.
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I read Dostoevsky's The Double because I really liked the movie, and I wondered how they adapted the 19th century story to modern times.
Reading Fight Club was a dissapointment after the great David Fincher film. Psycho was also similar, in that the Hitchcock movie was a lot better than the book.
Read the Night Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko after watching the first movie. It's still one of my favorite fantasy series, and the films were really butchered by Bekmambetov.
I decided to read Hunger Games after watching the first film's trailer, but I'm not sure that counts.
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Which i did and its one of my favorite books of all time.
Damn it just hit me its almost 20 years since i read the book.
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That's so funny, I did the exact same thing with The Mists of Avalon! I really just loved the story so much and anything from Aurthurenian legend gets me pretty easily.The Canadian Witch wrote: ↑26 Dec 2017, 18:06
The mists of Avalon is a 3 hrs long movie that i fell in love with and discovered it was based on a book, so i went to my public library and lucky me, they had it. They don't have many books in english in my public library. As i live in Quebec Canada, most books in libraries are french, so i was even more lucky to find it in english. I always prefer reading the original language instead of translations. The book is huge, it takes me 7 days to read if i just do that all day.. in comparison, the 7 Harry Potter books also take me 6-7 days to read them all. I've read the mists of Avalon 3 times so far.
I can only remember two other instances where I did this and it was with The Count of Monte Cristo and Just Like Heaven. Both times, ironically, I enjoyed the movie more.
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After what you said about Paper Towns, I think I'll follow your suggestion by reading it. My sisters watched it and kind of disappointed about the ending though they accepted it.AliceofX wrote: ↑28 Dec 2017, 12:11 A lot of reviews of the movie Paper Towns said that the book had a very different ending, and what they said made the story seem a lot better than the film's, so I decided to read the book.
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I decided to read Hunger Games after watching the first film's trailer, but I'm not sure that counts.
For the Hunger Games, I prefer the books. There are more explainations that the film can't cover. Especially for me the ending part. It lacks the deeper meaning of Katniss' choices.
Though it is understandable for the books is portrayed in first person point of view.
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The movie starring emma watson, i found the book at the bookstore and quickly bought it. I read the story book and reread it again and didnt get bored of it.
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