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Re: Book first or movie first?
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But this can also be a problem. If I’d watched the movie, “The Seeker: The Dark is Rising” before reading Susan Cooper, I probably would have never read those books. I would have never known how they completely tossed out a perfectly usable plot in favor of action sequences and the most rudimentary “chosen one coming of age” tropes possible. I would have never picked up on the richness of the mythology behind the images. This is probably why I also haven’t read “The Astronaut’s Wife.”
However, the much-more-common experience of reading the book first almost always leaves me dissatisfied. In almost all cases, the book is better. After the immersion of experiencing a story in my imagination, with all of its side-notes and development, a movie is never going to deliver everything I’d want. How can it, short of being countless hours long and letting ME pick the cast? (Looking at you, Lord of the Rings…)
I suppose I’m less likely to miss out on a good book if I endeavor to read first and watch afterwards, so that's probably the most logical approach.
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