I Only Watched the Movie!
Which titles have you watched the movie because it either came out first, or you had no time to do both?
Are you intending to read the book?
Are you intending to read the book?
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But once in a while, The movie makes me go "huh? that makes no sense? How'd they get there?" so I go read the book. And I sometimes like the book BETTER.
But mostly, If I LOVE the book, I avoid the movie at all costs (Percy Jackson for instance. LOVE the books. Heard the movie changed EVERTYHING and left huge, gaping holes in the storyline. WON'T be seeing that thing. EVER!!! Leave me my innocence!!!!!)

Have they actually made movies of all those Laurell K. Hamilton books? I wasn't aware of it.

At one time they were planning to make a tv movie based on "Guilty Pleasures", but the plans fell through. I'm going to remove those from the list.

Sometimes a film spurs me on to read the novel which is usually children or young adult books like Harry Potter.


Most of these I had no idea were books first.

Honestly, I didn't know some of those movies were taken from books either :)
And I've got to admit, sometimes I just watched the movie because I was too lazy to read the book...but that happened _very_ long ago...
Well, now I guess I've got to mark some of them as 'to-read'



Am surprised A Beautiful Mind is taken from a book, that would be an interesting read to see how the writer would cover up for the plot, as the movie director did it in a very clever way, i tend to think it is difficult to do the same when writing. Am inticed to read the book now
I still cannot make the NEW AND IMPROVED listopia work. Before it was improved I had no problem but now I can only vote. I was just trying to add Because of Winn Dixie but no luck. Why is it new and improved never works for me.
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Allegra wrote: "I usually have a "No watching the movie until I read the book first" policy, but I guess I broke the rule on a few of these...I didn't even realize some like Slumdog Millionaire and Chitty Chitty B..."
Same for me. So many movies I had no idea they were books first. Very rarely is the movie as good as the book but just lately I have found a few where the movie was better and was shocked.
Same for me. So many movies I had no idea they were books first. Very rarely is the movie as good as the book but just lately I have found a few where the movie was better and was shocked.

Angels & Demons is one of my favorite movies of all time. Its amazing. I especially did not expect Shutter Island to be a book. It was also very amazing, yet confusing. A lot of these books I've only read the book, not the movie, or the other way around, or both.
The thing is, I can't stop voting, hahaha. There are so many of these that I didn't know where books it's not even funny.






Stardust is a great read. :)

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I don't know if I will read the new book but I will sure buy the DVD when it comes out.
I don't know if I will read the new book but I will sure buy the DVD when it comes out.


But if i don't like the movie i won't bother reading it.

Stardust is a great read. :)"
I'm reading Stardust and then watching the movie to compare the two. It's really good so far. And good far me because I love fairy tale retellings.


I prefer it to their making movies of old TV series most of the time!



U have some e-books for those movies, but it seems that I don't intend to read the books since I enjoyed the movies, like The Phantom of The Opera, Time Traveller's Wife, The Kite Runner, etc.
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What do you do when the movie has a totally different name? The movie is: A Christmas Story and it is super funny. I need to read the book.
What do you do when the movie has a totally different name? The movie is: A Christmas Story and it is super funny. I need to read the book.

Same for me Kitty. There are so many movies I have seen and I get the book later when I find out there is one. In a few cases I much preferred the movie! Like The English Patient and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
Kitty wrote: "I feel so ashamed. I've only read a few of these, yet I've seen 49 of these film adaptations. I didn't even realize that some of them were based on books."
Kitty wrote: "I feel so ashamed. I've only read a few of these, yet I've seen 49 of these film adaptations. I didn't even realize that some of them were based on books."

But once in a while, The m..."
The movie wasn't that bad, they changed Annabeth a bit and left some of the minor exploring out

I disagree. There are a lot of movie adaptations (I, Robot, War of the Worlds, Ella Enchanted, Stuart Little, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Three Musketeers, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Dracula, etc.) that actually have very little in common with the books on which they are supposedly based. In my opinion, it's usually worth reading the book even if you saw the movie first. I like to compare the two and analyze the changes made in film adaptations.