Tara's comments (member since Jul 29, 2009)

Tara's comments from the Read the Movie group.

My biggest let-down as far as book-to-movie goes was James Patterson's Along Came a Spider. It was a monstrosity. The plot was not even the same.

I liked the Twilight book when I first read it (even the greatest of us fall), but the movie was atrocious. I had trouble following the movie even though I knew what was supposed to happen.

Second worst book-to-movie of all time is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling. That was another movie where I cannot understand how people who didn't bother to read the books could possibly understand what is going on.

I enjoyed The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini SO much. It was a fabulous book. The movie was actually good. They included quotes from the book and every major event (with the exception of one huge event, but I was pleased enough with the movie that this exception does not bother me). My only complaint could possibly be that the movie was too fast-paced because they had a time limit, but I think that's a small price to have an acceptable movie.

As you can see, I'm not very tolerant of book-to-movie transitions.

I always try to read the book first. I do believe that the only movies I've seen before I read the books were The Green Mile Book Box Set by Stephen King (fabulous movie, fabulous book, the two were interchangeable and this might be the best book-to-movie) and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (loved the books more than the movies, but I adore the movies as well).

I notice that I tend to only like the movies that I have seen before reading the book. I guess that way I'm not disappointed.