My wife and I didn't even bother to watch the movies. Typically when we read a book, we have a picture in our head of the way it is supposed to be or the way we see it. When the movie doesn't match the picture we have, then it is always going to be disappointing. I wasn't going to read these books, but my wife read them and wanted me to. I am glad she talked me into it. Timeline is another book that the movie did horrible justice to. It is actually one of my favorite books and I just can't handle the movie. Can you think of book that the movie actually lived up to the expectations?
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That's a good point about the books vs. the movies. To be honest I don't read a great deal of fiction so I don't really think i have a book vs movie example where movie was better than book. I'll have to ponder this.
Don't hurt yourself, I just wondered. That makes sense though if you mostly read non-fiction. I got thinking the movie Count of Monte Cristo was pretty good. The book just seemed to drag on a bit long. Starship troopers is another one where the movie is nothing at all like the book. I've never seen the Ender's Game movie, and I don't now as though I want to because the book was so fantastic.
one of my favorite books of all time... the other Ender books are great too but the original is the best by far. I do like the one where the Ender story is essentially told again but through the eyes of "Bean". Don't watch the movie... it will only make you mad and was so bad that the original plan to make this a trilogy was scrapped.
I have the other books and I started the second one but I never got around to finishing it. I might have to try again.