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Books to Movies- What to read??
So, there has been much conversation over the books that we like that have been turned into movies over the years, Harry Potter, Twilight, The Hunger Games, Extremely Close...,etc.
I have not read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series. It's next on my list. It didn't seem like the movie made much of a splash at all even though they brought in a good cast. Are the characters in that book just not as identifiable as the ones in the other books I've mentioned above? Was the movie just bad (e.g. Harry Potter 3-8)?
I'll still read it.
Any other books you've read that you are looking forward to the movie adaptation?
Re: Books to Movies- What to read??
Eat, Pray, Love was a really good adaptation.
I usually prefer the book to the movie, but there is one exception. Do you the Showtime show Dexter? SO GOOD and the books are TERRIBLE.
That's how I feel about True Blood. The books were so awful.
I can't think of any books where I look forward to the movies, except huge epic ones (harry potter, narnia, etc). Usually when they take a regular dramatic book to the movies it loses something, but a book that is visual and action orientend is different somehow.
Although the Help movie was a decent adaptation of the book, they covered most everything important. But I like to read a book a few years before a movie (or after) so I don't notice the big glaring things they leave out. and it was a long time ago but the book To Die For was good as a movie (Nicole Kindman as a weather girl who has an affair with a young Joaquin Phoenix and gets him to kill her husband).
I haven't yet seen the US Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie, but I suspect a few things played into a flat showing. The subject matter of the books is dark/disturbing, and the movie came out around Christmas. Probably not the best time to release the film. Additionally, the originally filmed Swedish movies were so good that there may have been a lot of fans of the books that refused to see the Hollywood version. (DH is one of them, firmly convinced that Noomi Rapace IS Lisbeth Salander) But of those people that did see the US movie, I only heard rave reviews. The books are fantastic, once you trudge through the first 100 pages of the first book.
I read Water for Elephants, and just couldn't connect with the book like so many others have connected. You're welcome to have my copy if you want to read it. I won't ever see the film even though Robert Pattinson looks mighty fine in it.
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