So many moons ago, about a year before the movie, I thought to myself "I wonder what all this Harry Potter brouhaha is all about?" So I went to the bookstore, picked up the first book, read the first page and thought "Ah. I get it." It looked like it would be a really fun book to read.
And believe you me, I WANT to read the books.
BUT, while I love books to death (see my degree in English Literature), movies are my PASSION. Movies sing to my soul (said the atheist.) And I thoroughly believe through my own experiences that reading a book can ruin a movie, but seeing a movie doesn't ruin a book. Books pretty much cannot be ruined. There's just too much to them that a movie cannot express. If I hear that a movie is being planned for a book I want to read, I avoid readig the book until after I have seen the movie.
And thus, I want to see the Harry Potter movies. I eventually want to read the books.
Can anybody think of a book that was ruined by the movie? (Movie first, book second)
My Harry Potter stance
Date: 2002-07-09 01:02 pm (UTC)And believe you me, I WANT to read the books.
BUT, while I love books to death (see my degree in English Literature), movies are my PASSION. Movies sing to my soul (said the atheist.) And I thoroughly believe through my own experiences that reading a book can ruin a movie, but seeing a movie doesn't ruin a book. Books pretty much cannot be ruined. There's just too much to them that a movie cannot express. If I hear that a movie is being planned for a book I want to read, I avoid readig the book until after I have seen the movie.
And thus, I want to see the Harry Potter movies. I eventually want to read the books.
Can anybody think of a book that was ruined by the movie? (Movie first, book second)