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    Quote Originally Posted by Bat View Post
    DUDE! Same exact situation for me! I had a week of in-school suspension for breakin' rules, and I needed something to pass the time. I grabbed that big ol' book off a shelf and went on a magical journey!
    After that book, the entire series came very very shortly after!

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    Blood and Chocolate.

    That movie burned me SO bad! I love the book and the movie hurt me SO much!

    I'll give the movie some good transformation visuals but that's it, everything else *raspberry noise*

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    Also yes the Eragon series and the Percy Jackson series!


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    The Neverending Story - I loved the film when I was little but the book is incredible! Also, IMO, all the narnia books are better than the movies.

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    The Twilight series.

    HOWEVER, the first Twilight movie is an absolute gem in the sense that it’s so bad it’s good. It became a cult classic and I love watching it and cringing still nearly 15 years later!






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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnamoroll View Post
    The Twilight series.

    HOWEVER, the first Twilight movie is an absolute gem in the sense that it’s so bad it’s good. It became a cult classic and I love watching it and cringing still nearly 15 years later!
    THIS!! How did I forget about Twilight?! The movies made me cringe so hard! It makes for some freaking hilarious memes now but I almost walked out of the first movie! I actually enjoyed the books and still own the set to this day.




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    Fun Fact!

    The 2001: A Space Odyssey was written mostly concurrently (and partially subsequently) with the screenplay with Arthur C Clarke and Stanley Kubrick contributing to both, though Clarke ended up being the only credited author of the novel, and many aspects being lifted from his previous work. In this case I feel like it's more a testament to how you can tell the same story very differently through different media.

    That said, yes, it definitely helps to understand what the fuck went on.



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    +1 to Watership Down, as much as I enjoy the movie it's just not something that can be adapted in a way to do it full justice.

    First one that comes to mind for me is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. There's just no way you can recreate the emotional impact (in my opinion) of one certain scene (really a conversation) at the very end of the book. I don't want to say anything more specific because spoilers, but man. That's some writing that's stuck with me my whole life.

    edit - did not realize when I posted that we had were grave digging this thread 😅 sorry about that, admin team. This thread should be closed per cK stipulations on old inactive threads.
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