Thread: Opinions of reading The Stand 'The Complete & Uncut Version'
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Old 03-15-2009, 06:39 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by carld View Post
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.
On one level I do have to agree even though for the most part the movie will make reading the novel either too trivial (if the movie parrots the novel too closely) or difficult to get into the spirt. In fact I can recall one, no actually two, specific instances where the book was vastly better than the movies. That was Day of the Dolphin and Jaws (there is that freaky book AGAIN!) Jaws the movie was nowhere near as chilling to me as the novel. And the movie made from Day of the Dolphin was just plain embarrassing to Robert Merle.

I think in most cases it's the Ludlum and Clancy type novels which the movie sort of ruins the reading for me personally. Even Ian Flemming is far better as a novel but once I watched the movie I just did not read the novel after the first couple.

I will say I had such a difficult time getting into the whole Tolkien Hobbit series that I enjoyed the movies far more. I might not have had the literary maturity to read The Hobbit way back when, as I was just starting to expand beyond the ray-guns and rocketships mode for my SciFi reading. These days I have promised myself I WILL read the series from the beginning with The Hobbit. In other words it is a case where the movie did inspire me to read the novels. And if I read The Hobbit before the movie comes out in 2012 it might be fun for me.

Harry Potter books are another good example of my enjoyment of the book being diminished by the movie if I do not read the novel first. I have also decided that once I have read the novel, I wait for the DVD or even audiobook. One has to just love Jim Dale's reading of the novels. But I alos like Steven Fry's reading too. coin toss I suppose. Just wish we could buy them on Audible. Though given Amazon's recent shennagians I am not sure I will be supporting Audible anymore either.
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