Listopia > Earthan's votes on the list The Book Was Better Than the Movie (26 Books)
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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"Lowest common denomenator handholding"
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rated it 3 stars
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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"Harry Potter and the Missing Half of the Book."
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rated it 4 stars
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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"Dobby."
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rated it 3 stars
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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"There's too much here to adapt to a single film."
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rated it 5 stars
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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"The saga of Harry Potter vs. the Atrocious Soundtrack begins."
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rated it 4 stars
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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"The Last Man on Earth came close, but even it missed the mark a bit."
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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"I never even read the whole book, but the movie was pretty bad."
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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"Dennis Nedry's death scene."
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Starship Troopers
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"The movie insults the book's intelligence and message."
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rated it 5 stars
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Jumanji
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"The movie had some kind of moral. The book just had weird things happening to some kids."
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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"I wish people would stop abusing H.G. Wells' books, in film."
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added it to to-read
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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"The movie was respectful of the source material, but still wasn't a very good film."
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rated it 5 stars
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Beowulf
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"While Beowulf being nude for nearly the whole story is probably historically accurate or whatever, I didn't need to see it."
Earthan
rated it 4 stars
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Ring (Ring, #1)
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"The film was good, but didn't totally capture Suzuki's poetic mood."
Earthan
rated it 4 stars
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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"Brendan Fraser."
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rated it 3 stars
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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"It's only a tiny bit better, but it is better."
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rated it 5 stars
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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
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"Hellboy isn't a secret, he's not in love with Liz, and Abe's not pychic...and he IS in love with Liz."
Earthan
rated it 5 stars
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The Punisher, Vol. 1: Welcome Back, Frank
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"John Travolta."
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rated it 4 stars
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
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"Although the movie was god-awful, the addition of Dorian Gray as a main character was inspired."
Earthan
rated it 5 stars
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V for Vendetta
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"The movie pulled punches. Moore spares no one."
Earthan
rated it 4 stars
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The War of the Worlds
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"The recent Speilberg production reproduced the book's lonely horror, but it suffered from Spielberg's usual emotional immaturity."
Earthan
rated it 4 stars
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Frankenstein
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"The one with Kenneth Branagh was almost good, but then it wasn't."
Earthan
rated it 5 stars
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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"I do not believe that anyone involved with this film had read the book."
Earthan
rated it 5 stars
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The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
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"The movie made NO SENSE. The book was quite good, for Anne Rice."
Earthan
rated it 4 stars
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Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)
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"They haven't made a movie out of this yet, but I have read the originally proposed screenplay and it was stunningly terrible. The book, on the other hand, is incredibly awesome."
Earthan
rated it 5 stars
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