![]() ![]() While the book is actually quite fabulous and witty, it’s a little more cynical and cold than the movie. The most obvious example is The Princess Bride. Then there are the weird, rare occasions where I actually like the movie better. Some movie adaptations I can get through by pretending that it’s a completely different story that just happens to have the same title ( The Hundred and One Dalamatians, actually), but others fill me with such rage that I can’t. I don’t exactly love it more – but when I read Pride & Prejudice, the BBC actors ARE the book characters! But dearly beloved books, like The Hundred and One Dalamations and Little Women, just to name a few, have been utterly destroyed by the movies. Actually, the BBC’s Pride & Prejudice comes to mind. Something about those first impressions, I think. If I see the movie first, I love the movie more. So over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern: if I read the book first, I love the book more. The Aroma of Books //Rants//Raves//Reviews// Pargeter, Edith (also writing as Ellis Peters).Mertz, Barbara (also writing as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels).Christie, Agatha (also writing as Mary Westmacott).Children’s History: Landmark, Signature Biographies, and We Were There.#BookSpin & #BookSpinBingo (Litsy Challenge). ![]()
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