Oh, we have that series at our library. It's one I've put off reading BECAUSE it's a trilogy of long books and I'm like "WHEN WOULD I HAVE THE TIME FOR THAT?!" But I definitely have heard great things about it, and I actually recommended it to a kid (teen) the other week based on what he said he liked, and I had a bit of a "YES!" moment just yesterday looking at that shelf and noticing the first one had been returned and the second one was gone. SUCCESSFUL READERS ADVISORY FTW! (Librarians can get pretty nerdy about stuff like that, no?)
What you say about reading the book first is how I've always FELT about books, but then it seems like maybe one shouldn't watch the movie AT ALL for being disappointed. Movies maybe work better as advertizements for the books. But then there ARE movies that are fun to see just BECAUSE you enjoyed the books so much-- like the Harry Potter movies. Minus Azkaban. You go in knowing it's not going to be EXACTLY like the book, but trusting that at least you'll be in that WORLD. That's also how I feel about Peter Jackson's Middle Earth movies, too, come to think-- however they twist the plot around, THAT IS STILL TOTALLY MIDDLE EARTH, and I just like being there. So I still don't know why some adaptations work for me and some don't.
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What you say about reading the book first is how I've always FELT about books, but then it seems like maybe one shouldn't watch the movie AT ALL for being disappointed. Movies maybe work better as advertizements for the books. But then there ARE movies that are fun to see just BECAUSE you enjoyed the books so much-- like the Harry Potter movies. Minus Azkaban. You go in knowing it's not going to be EXACTLY like the book, but trusting that at least you'll be in that WORLD. That's also how I feel about Peter Jackson's Middle Earth movies, too, come to think-- however they twist the plot around, THAT IS STILL TOTALLY MIDDLE EARTH, and I just like being there. So I still don't know why some adaptations work for me and some don't.