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[deleted] t1_iy7s1u9 wrote

How do you deal with the book-movie thing?

Now I think that between you there are other people that like both movies and books and so I'm asking how do you manage it. I'll explain: I keep a list of movies I want to watch and that's pretty long while with books I've a short list of titles or authors (consuming a movies is much faster than books). So for example right now I'd like to get into Philipp K. Dick books but I have some movies on my list that are adaptations of his work (Minority Report, Total Recall...). Now I'll start with some that don't have a movie adaptation (The Man on the High Castle, Ubik) but then how would you move?

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okiegirl22 t1_iy7yj1d wrote

(The Man in the High Castle does have a TV series adaptation, just FYI, ha ha!)

Generally I’m a book first, movie second kind of person. I figure that way I have the same background knowledge that the filmmakers did and I can appreciate how the material is being adapted, and I dislike spoilers for my books.

But, I also don’t watch movies very often. So it’s easy for me to keep up with reading the books first. I think you just have to figure out how important it is (or if it’s important at all) for you to have read the book before watching the movie. Then either read the books first or don’t, whichever will work for you!

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[deleted] t1_iy7ywti wrote

>(The Man in the High Castle does have a TV series adaptation, just FYI, ha ha!)

I know, I'm not really into TV series tho

>I figure that way I have the same background knowledge that the filmmakers did and I can appreciate how the material is being adapted

That's an interesting point of view!

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unlovelyladybartleby t1_iy8iudx wrote

I do book first and then movie unless the book is the novelization of the movie, then it goes second. I'm such a nerd that I have the books of stuff like the star wars movies (which actually answered some questions for me as the books contain "deleted scenes" lol).

I prefer to imagine the characters my own way instead of seeing them all Hollywood perfect (skinny, perfect teeth and hair, usually white rolls eyes)

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