If ever, EVER you read a book before you watch the movie version, you get disappointed with the movie, neh? So, instead, simply watch the movie first!!! I noticed this when I read Dreamcatcher and The Phantom of the Opera. My mom read Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone after she saw the movie (which I dragged her to, and upon doing so she found that it was wonderful) and thought that they were both really good, and really well done, so she read the Chamber of Secrets before she saw the movie, and she hated the movie! I'm not sure if this would work for anyone else, but it sure did for me - for one, it makes the movie more understandable and for another, you don't get let down. - of course I read the whole Harry Potter series before I saw the movies, but still thought the movies were good, just not as good as the books
Don't know. For me it is interesting to see what they changed in the movie. I read 'Lord of the rings' before I watched the movies and was fascinated from both the books and the movies... The same with the Harry Potter series... But a friend of mine got dissapointed, there were many little details that are different in the movies than they are in the books, Harry's eye color for instance. She got dissapointed, I liked to search for them...
somtimes i find it hard to amigine the charecters as someone else. i saw the 70's invasion of the bodysnatchers first. and i still imagine the charecters in that to be the actors from the film. i reckon reading the book first is best because then you dont have a person to associate with that um charector if ya getmy drift
