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I guess I watched more movie adaptations of books first than I read books before seeing a movie adaptation. Actually, I seldom read the books after seeing a movie. The Thin Man was an exception - I bought the book quite a while after seeing the movie. Another book I read after seeing a movie based on it: Dracula (of the many movie versions I prefer Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens, which is based in some way on the novel).
Other movies based on books that I watched: The Story of Temple Drake, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931; again with Miriam Hopkins), The Wizard of Oz (saw it once, which was more than enough and I really don't want the book), Lost Horizon (1937; at least I downloaded the book recently to read it sometime), Frankenstein (1931), Topper (1937), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), The Invisible Man (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), Stella Dallas (1937), The Match King (1932), Skyscraper Souls (1932), Lady for a Day (1933) and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (the last two are based on short stories, does that count as "book"?). Most of these movies I enjoyed watching, some of them I watched more than once (The Thin Man is a movie I can watch every year before Christmas). The one movie I don't really enjoyed was The Wizard of Oz, I loathe Mrs. Garland and all the singing stuff. At least there are some memorable quotes from this movie, but that's about it.
There are certainly much more movie adaptions of novels I have seen. And don't get me started on movies based on plays.
There's one book that I read before seeing the movie: Fahrenheit 451. The movie by Truffaut has to be his worst movie (at least the worst Truffaut movie I have seen).
As you may have noticed I really don't watch much movies in colour or recently made movies ("recently" covering the time frame from circa 1970 until today).
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