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Listopia > Cat's votes on the list The Book Was Better Than the Movie (23 Books)
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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"Though I loved the actor that they got to play the Chairman, there was just too much that they choice to avoid in the movie, making it more a piece of gloss fluff with no substance."
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rated it 5 stars
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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"this movie was a terrible reprenstation of the book and they should have called it something else and said in the tag line loosely based on the book Eragon."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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"Because the book has way more dinosaurs. "
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rated it 3 stars
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My Sister's Keeper
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"Book has a different ending, and they left out one of my favorite characters."
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rated it 4 stars
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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"They made this movie so they could make special effects, not to represent the story"
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rated it 4 stars
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The Namesake
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"I get the characters better after reading the book"
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rated it 4 stars
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Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
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"You just cannot capture the true essence of these books on film"
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rated it 5 stars
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The Secret Life of Bees
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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In Her Shoes
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"One of the reasons that I love Jennifer Weiner's books is because the heroines are big girls, I can relate to them. If Toni Collette is a big girl, I'm screwed. And Cameron Diaz is not at all as interesting as she character in the book."
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rated it 5 stars
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Into the Wild
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A Thousand Acres
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"Granted, King Lear on stage was better than both. "
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rated it 4 stars
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 5 stars
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
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"You just cannot capture the true essence of these books on film"
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rated it 5 stars
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 4 stars
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 4 stars
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 5 stars
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 4 stars
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 5 stars
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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"You just cannot capture the true essence of these books on film"
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rated it 5 stars
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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"There is too much going on in the HP books to get covered by 2.5 hrs."
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rated it 5 stars
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The Bridges of Madison County
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