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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
To me reading the novel after can polarize me as a reader to not allow the story as written happen as the author intended. Given my choice I will always read the novel and fore-go the movie. I, Robot was actually a nice exception as it was a totally different story yet Starship Troopers was a dismal adaptation of a wonderful novel where the movie vastly missed the point of the novel. Still SsT was a fun movie as a DVD rental, just not what I had been anticipating by a fair margin.
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It's odd, I've found that reading the book first will almost always ruin the movie, but not the other way around. I suppose it's because the book is usually a much deeper and richer (not to mention longer) experience.