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" whereupon the definition of what men's behavior/societal attributes is being questioned was a good central theme to Palaniuk's 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" whereupon the definition of what men's behavior/societal attributes is being questioned was a good central theme to Palaniuk's 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 of course a feminazi such as yourself wont get the whole idea

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.