Dale Dobson
Auditioning
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2000
- Messages
- 7
Sometimes the two are different enough from each other to make both book and movie enjoyable, regardless of order.
I'm reading Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" right now; there are lots of "internal" laugh-out-loud jokes that just didn't fit into the movie. And because the original novel is set in England, visions of John Cusack as the main character aren't polluting my mental picture of the character in the book, due to differences in speech rhythms and slang. (Not that I disliked Cusack's performance or the movie in any way, but it's nice not to have the film version overshadowing the reading experience for once.)
On the other hand, I loved reading E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," but am not certain I'm looking forward to the movie. And I can't read "Neighbors" without seeing Aykroyd and Belushi.
Case-by-case, I guess.
I'm reading Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" right now; there are lots of "internal" laugh-out-loud jokes that just didn't fit into the movie. And because the original novel is set in England, visions of John Cusack as the main character aren't polluting my mental picture of the character in the book, due to differences in speech rhythms and slang. (Not that I disliked Cusack's performance or the movie in any way, but it's nice not to have the film version overshadowing the reading experience for once.)
On the other hand, I loved reading E. Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News," but am not certain I'm looking forward to the movie. And I can't read "Neighbors" without seeing Aykroyd and Belushi.
Case-by-case, I guess.