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why is breaking dawn on the list when it doesnt even have a movie yet?

Eragon? Inkheart? 0.o Also, I'm taking off books that aren't movies. They don't make sense.

Sometimes, the movies aren't that good, but you later find out there is a book it's based on, and for a discerning viewer the concept looks like it could have been a much better story, and it's likely that is so in the original source.
Other times the movies are simply outstanding, and the book still is better. And others, rare occasions, the book is a horrible let down.

Zanahoria (Taly) wrote: "Sometimes, the movies aren't that good, but you later find out there is a book it's based on, and for a discerning viewer the concept looks like it could have been a much better story, and it's lik..."

Good point, I never thought about it that way.

I had all three happen to me some time or another. The fourth instance is where the movie is not good, and then you read the book and it's worse. Double the wasted time. Sucks.

Zanahoria (Taly) wrote: "I had all three happen to me some time or another. The fourth instance is where the movie is not good, and then you read the book and it's worse. Double the wasted time. Sucks."

Ouch. =/ What movie/book was that?

It's probably inviting boos, but Blood and Chocolate. Movie was pop-corn tolerable, book was... icky. And teenage angst.

Zanahoria (Taly) wrote: "It's probably inviting boos, but Blood and Chocolate. Movie was pop-corn tolerable, book was... icky. And teenage angst."

It is! I looove that book. The movie... ugh, kill me. I hated it. But I loved the book. It was more unique and different than most other YA werewolf books and I liked that the ending wasn't stupid and clique like I thought it was going to be. But the movie, wow. It's maybe the worst movie adaption I've ever seen. They even change who she ends up with! That's stupid.

Lol, yeah, nothing alike at all. And most people love the book. I just couldn't connect I guess. And the guy had slept with her mother.

Zanahoria (Taly) wrote: "Lol, yeah, nothing alike at all. And most people love the book. I just couldn't connect I guess. And the guy had slept with her mother."

Yeah, it did have some issues. But I still love it. :)

For me it's the other way around if I know that a movie is the adaptation of a book I rush to read the book first because I know the movie is going to ruin it usually. The movie gives around 20% of the book. To many edits.

Chrystelle wrote: "For me it's the other way around if I know that a movie is the adaptation of a book I rush to read the book first because I know the movie is going to ruin it usually. The movie gives around 20% of..."

So you've never ever watched a movie and then found out that it was a book first?

I probably did that's why I said "IF" I know that a movie is the adaptation.....If I find out after I'll still read the book
There had been several times when a movie came out and I put off watching it for a week or so just so I can read the book first.

Chrystelle wrote: "For me it's the other way around if I know that a movie is the adaptation of a book I rush to read the book first because I know the movie is going to ruin it usually. The movie gives around 20% of..."

yeah i totally agree. if i know about an upcoming movie that is a book, ill try to read it before seeing the movie so it more, real, i guess. but which ever way round you do it, ones going to be spoiled:/

I think that would be fine, since there's not a list for that.

I read so many of these long before the film/series came out. Lord, I feel old today.

I have never wanted to read a book after seeing the movie - only the other way around.

Livie wrote: "Is it okay if I do ones where the TV show based on a book made me want to read the book, not necessarily a movie... ?"

I put down Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, since the TV series made me want to read the book, which I did decades before the movie came out.