Girls Discussing Books (and other stuff) discussion

Post the name of a book, if it was better or worse as a movie, and why.

Hunger Games series:
I believe the Hunger Game series was better as a book, but was still AMAZING as a movie! The only reason why it was better in the book is because in any movie made from a book will never get the intensely detailed emotions from the characters then in the movie just because you are judging from their facial expressions.

Yes! I think in movies it is easier to portray action and suspense, though, whereas in a book it can seem slow-paced.

The Giver
Everyone says this was worse as a movie, but I felt the book wasn't fast-paced enough and lacked detail and complexity. The movie actually developed the characters and setting! I LOVE this movie...

Never seen it, but I understand the action... In my opinion most books the action does go slow as you said, but however I think really well written books are great for action.

Piper wrote: "Never seen it, but I understand the action... In my opinion most books the action does go slow as you said, but however I think really well written books are great for action."

Yeah. You must see The Giver! It's amazing.

I must read it first! I'll add that to To-read list :D

Has anyone watched the new Paper Towns movie?

The Book Thief
I liked it better as a movie, as usual. The casting was perfect, aside from the fact that Rudy looked five years younger than he looked and Liesel was naïve and stupid. I cried so much at the end! I'm not even a crying person but I hated how it was one of those 'everyone dies' movies. I give it 4 stars out of 5.

Percy Jackson
Let's not even discuss this. They would have been pretty good as an independent movie, because I have to say I actually enjoyed them, but it was absolutely different to the series and were a bit of a let down for Percy Jackson fans (me :D) looking for the books to come to life.

Piper wrote: "I must read it first! I'll add that to To-read list :D"
Read it and seen it now! YAY!

Divergent Series - I did a film study on this in English (snore...) which was too much indepth thinking and ended up kinda ruining the series for me. Even still, the movies were sufficiently fast-paced and were actually more interesting than the books. I'm (attempting) reading Allegiant at the moment and I'll admit, I'm struggling a bit. I liked the first book, the second was okay, but this? I just can't get through it very easily. Possibly because the ending has been spoiled for me so I don't have a lot to look forward to :-/

Amy wrote: "Divergent Series - I did a film study on this in English (snore...) which was too much indepth thinking and ended up kinda ruining the series for me. Even still, the movies were sufficiently fast-p..."

Ugh yes. Everyone was already talking about how (view spoiler)[Tris dies (hide spoiler)] so when I finally got up to reading it the story was a bit of a bore. I hate spoilers!