Which is better - to read the book first before the movie or vice versa?

[kara]

which do you prefer/recommend?

[El Mayimbe]

if Im aware that there's a book/novel that isnt some sort of pulp fiction (ie harry potter) then ill make a strong effort to read the story b4hand.
it makes the movie much more interesting, i guess

was just discussing this with friends over some drinks 2nite how I enjoyed the bus ride scene on "Fight Club" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/) whereupon the definition of what men's behavior/societal attributes is being questioned was a good central theme to Palaniuk's novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(novel)) that hopefully got conveyed to those understood it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHT376P2qI

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[kara]

if Im aware that there's a book/novel that isnt some sort of pulp fiction (ie harry potter) then ill make a strong effort to read the story b4hand.
it makes the movie much more interesting, i guess

was just discussing this with friends over some drinks 2nite how I enjoyed the bus ride scene on "Fight Club" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/) whereupon the definition of what men's behavior/societal attributes is being questioned was a good central theme to Palaniuk's novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(novel)) that hopefully got conveyed to those understood it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHT376P2qI

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1) hate harry potter. so yay for you there.
2) that's what you got out of the fight club?
3) and there's a book behind it?

LOL

I just listed fight club in my "overrated movies" and I really couldn't get through it, after more than one attempt. I may just revisit the movie. AND the book. The book first :)

thanks for your response. I kinda wonder if the movie will ever be good if I read the book before, so then I struggle with which to do first.

[El Mayimbe]

1) hate harry potter. so yay for you there.
2) that's what you got out of the fight club?
3) and there's a book behind it?

LOL

I just listed fight club in my "overrated movies" and I really couldn't get through it, after more than one attempt. I may just revisit the movie. AND the book. The book first :)

thanks for your response. I kinda wonder if the movie will ever be good if I read the book before, so then I struggle with which to do first.





oh Kara :jpshakehead: of course a feminazi such as yourself wont get the whole idea :tongueout:

go beyond the perception that this is just another movie about doods kicking each others asses with Brad Pitt "im so kewl & shirtless" scenes and realize its more about the state of masculinity in this day & age & breaking down social norms expected of men.

*"A generation of men raised by women. I’m wondering if another woman is the answer we really need." -Fight Club

[panklady]

Book first...for those who call themselves readers. Get non-readers to read by showing them the movie and allowing for a comparison/contrast to conversation to come about. Kara, Harry who? LOL.

[ngeso]

Definitely read first. For the all-important imagination.