Note - Repost from the DVD Talk forum as i figured this was the better place to post it... deleted the old one
I was just reviewing my collection and it thinking of all the Movies that made me want to go out and read the book..
For me, it's Trainspotting (also read Porno, the sequel. Very good).
Fight Club (read every book by Palahniuk by now, I'd really like to see his other works translated into film.
and A Clockwork Orange.
what are yours?
chente
08-20-04, 09:56 PM
Day of Wrath inspired me to read Ray Carney's "Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer " which is out of print and I had to hunt down.
The Wizard
08-20-04, 10:00 PM
Stephen King's It
The Stand
Salem's Lot
fumanstan
08-20-04, 10:03 PM
Fight Club
Harry Potter
necros
08-20-04, 10:29 PM
I don't read much but the 2 that come to mind are....
Lord of the Rings. yes, I saw the first movie first and I know I'm not alone.
The Stand
Also way back when the movies were new I got the book adaptions of Aliens and the Terminator.
I'm not much of a book reader anymore. I read enough on the net :p
mike45
08-20-04, 11:44 PM
The Count of Monte Cristo (Richard Chamberlain Version)
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the Iron Mask
War and Peace, yes I actually finished the book.
The Caine Mutiny
Moby Dick
Inside the Third Reich
Captain Hornblower (Gregory Peck Version)
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone Versions)
Roger Corman Edgar Allen Poe Movies
Dracula
Frankenstein
Cromwell
Les Miserables
....and many more
Most I read during my college years.
FantasticVSDoom
08-20-04, 11:47 PM
Harry Potter is the only one that I have finished. Im half way through Prisoner of Azkaban now, and cant wait to get to the ones that there arent movies for because it wierd reading a book you know the story to. I tried to read Red Dragon after the movie, but never finished it.
Joem
08-20-04, 11:55 PM
Both Forrest Gump and Princess Bride inspired me to read the books they were based off of. In both examples, it is one of the few times I've enjoyed the film 100% more than it's print source.
Rammsteinfan
08-20-04, 11:55 PM
Hmmmm not much lately but in the past in High School i know i picked up SPHERE, JURRASSIC PARK, THE RELIC, and MISERY.
Tony Dvdfan
08-21-04, 12:42 AM
I read The Longest Day after seeing the movie...think that's the only one that i saw the movie first.
Michael Corvin
08-21-04, 12:43 AM
I usually read the book before but one or two that I read after were the Star Wars trilogy and Contact.
Obey The D
08-21-04, 01:06 AM
Silence of the Lambs
MahatmaPetey
08-21-04, 01:13 AM
Fight Club
The Exorcist
The Shining, IT, Pet Semetary, Salem's Lot, etc...
Requiem for a Dream (reading it now)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frankenstein
Psycho
i have a bunch of others sitting on my bookshelf that i haven't had time to read yet.
All the President's Men
Naked Lunch
Rosemary's Baby
Dracula
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
devilshalo
08-21-04, 01:13 AM
Most were because I heard the movie was coming out.
The Abyss
Jaws
Silence of the Lambs
Hannibal
Jurassic Park
Star Wars IV & V
Along Came a Spider
Kiss the Girls
What Dreams May Come
Bridges of Madison County :o
Abranut
08-21-04, 01:18 AM
Originally posted by devilshalo
Most were because I heard the movie was coming out.
Same reason here. I trust the rule that says the book is probably better than the movie is going to be.
lisadoris
08-21-04, 07:59 AM
I usually read the book before the films are released but a couple got passed me:
Lord of the Rings trilogy + The Hobbit
Jurassic Park
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
I plan to find the story Secret Window was based on just to see if it was a poor adaptation or the source material was bad to begin with.
TheMadMonk
08-21-04, 08:16 AM
Fight Club
A Clockwork Orange
Get Me Coffee
08-21-04, 08:27 AM
Harry Potter and Seabiscuit
wmansir
08-21-04, 08:30 AM
These inspired me to read the books:
LOTR and The Hobbit
The Princess Bride
These I saw before the movie, but I don't recall if one perticular movie inspired me to check out the author:
Several Crichton - Jurassic Park, Andrameda Strain, maybe Congo. I read several before they were movies.
The Frim. Maybe some other Grisham- A Time To Kill, The Client. I can't recall If I saw them before or after the movie.
The Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger. I didn't see Patriot Games until after I read the book.
Cujo, Carrie, Christine, The Shining, The Running Man, Stand By Me/The Body. I have read almost all of King's significant publications before 1992. Though I didn't start reading him until 1989 so I saw many as movies first.
Leedguitar
08-21-04, 09:16 AM
Fight Club
The Exorcist
Usually I try to read the book first.
hgar78
08-21-04, 10:35 AM
simon birch=a prayer for owen meany (my all-time fav book and fav author now)
the firm=liked the book a lot (more than the film)
bridges of madison county=but that was a loooong time ago!
princess bride=couldn't get through the book, i think i remember thinking it was just too close to the film so i put it down.
joeydaninja
08-21-04, 10:54 AM
surprisingly, Battlefield Earth, that movie was so bad, that I thought that the book must have been good, if people were willing to throw that much money at it. and i wasn't wrong. it was a great book! too bad the movie was that bad.
tommyp007
08-21-04, 11:59 AM
Fahrenheit 911 got me to read Dude, Where's my Country. Excellent on both parts.
tdirgins
08-21-04, 07:19 PM
Master and Commander &
The Far Side of the World
I'm a Patrick O'Brien fanatic now...
Matthew Chmiel
08-22-04, 03:14 AM
The Abyss
Uh.... the book was an adaptation of the film....
devilshalo
08-22-04, 05:10 AM
Originally posted by Matthew Chmiel
Uh.... the book was an adaptation of the film....
It was a novelization in which Orson Scott Card was given the treatment notes and allowed to embellish upon Cameron's ideas.
UAIOE
08-22-04, 05:16 AM
The only movie to ever make me go read the book afterwards was "Jurassic Park".
I saw "The Time Machine" (the orginal movie) years before actually reading the book....But I read the book more because i wanted to read another book by H.G. Wells than because of the movie.
ThickAsABrick
08-23-04, 10:11 AM
off topic - Cool, another KMFDM fan ;) I'm seeing them this november
sundog
08-23-04, 10:20 AM
Read book after seeing movie:
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut (Traumnovelle)
a part of Naked Lunch (besides being difficult to get through I also realized that the movie is more of an adaptation of Burroughs than his book)
Wanted to see movie, knew there was a book, and then read book before seeing the adaptation:
Lolita
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
In Cold Blood
fumanstan
08-23-04, 12:27 PM
Forgot about a lot of books i had read after reading through more of this thread...
Read Jurassic Park after watching the movie. Same with Forrest Gump. And i'm ashamed i forgot about Princess Bride (one of my favs)
DigIt
08-23-04, 02:42 PM
The Ninth Gate
Josh H
08-23-04, 02:46 PM
Fight Club
High Fidelity
About a Boy
Lord of the Rings (though technically the FOTR trailer inspired me and I read it before seeing the movie)
Harry Potter
Probably some more I'm forgetting.
UAIOE
08-24-04, 01:46 AM
Seeing "The Lost World" inspired me to read the book again....
and i still think the book is 100 million times better.
Originally posted by ThickAsABrick
off topic - Cool, another KMFDM fan ;) I'm seeing them this november
So am i.
Kumar J
08-24-04, 01:57 AM
Hannibal
LOTR
Sphere
DonnachaOne
08-24-04, 04:46 AM
Jurassic Park. I loved Dinosaurs, so, since the film wouldn't be out for a while, I read the book.
I was disappointed with the changes and omissions, but I enjoy both. I fondly remember telling other kids (the loudmouth ones who bragged about seeing it before ANYONE else, or the most times) all the best bits from the book.
"Yes, TWO Tyrranosaurs! And John Hammond meets one!"
Debaser
08-24-04, 05:33 AM
'The Last Picture Show'
'Maurice'
'Andromeda Strain'
Buy: