I am currently reading: The Descent by Jeff Long. I thought this was going to be the book that the movie The Descent (that came out in 2006 I believe) was based on, but it doesn't seem to be (although there are some similarities.)
This is the first book in awhile that I've started that wasn't a book that had a movie based on it. I read one and then decided to read another. And then another. And another.
I just finished reading The Godfather yesterday. Before that I'd read I Am Legend, The Road, American Psycho, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, The Lovely Bones, Fight Club, The Princess Bride, Shutter Island, & the Millenium Trilogy (The Girl Who...) to name a few.
I love both reading the book and seeing the movie. Sometimes I have not even known there was a book until I heard/read about it somewhere after seeing a movie or a movie comes out. I like to compare. Like most readers, I will have to agree that the book is better. Usually anyway. I have come across a few instances where I liked the movie better. There are a few movies too that I guess I just liked so much that the book felt differently, so I will call those times a tie *smile*
I've seen all of those movies except for The Lovely Bones (it's in my Netflix queue!). I also still have in my stash to read (aka my Kindle): All the Pretty Horses (haven't seen it), Eat, Pray, Love (haven't seen it), Stir of Echoes (saw it, but I remember it vaguely), Rules of Attraction (haven’t seen it), Intensity (saw it) L.A. Confidential (can’t remember if I saw it lol) & Let the Right One In (saw it). I'm sure I have other movie-books, but those are the ones I remember. Might be time to change it up a little bit anyway.
The one movie-book I have read that I haven't and probably will never see the movie counterpart is Deliverance. That's odd because if I've read it, I almost always want to see the movie too, but in this case, I have no real desire to see that movie.
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