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Never judge a book by its movie.While it is true that there are some adaptions that are rather faithful, there are some that you wouldn't recognize as being from a book if it wasn't for the name. Thinks of Eragon and shudders

Oh jeez, was Eragon really that bad? 😕 I think the Harry Potter movies turned out pretty good, even though they left some stuff out, but that was pretty much expected...

yes it was! they changed the main character from being a naive brat to an insolent pretty boy WITH BLOND HAIR eragons hair is supposed to be brown BROWN. and they also gave arya blond hair WTF. in all the chapters arya was mentioned poulini described with vivid description about arya's black hair.

yeah WB did a good job with harry potter they met all my major expectations and when you look at how long the books were you can hardly blame them for leaving stuff out. and the actors they chose looked exactly like how i pictured them in my head

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That's not even half as bad as harry. At least he could lose some weight....geez
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And look at the Lord of the Ring:
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I didn't really like Harry Potter 4. They cut too many things out. Yes, I know it's a movie but there were some special parts in it that I really wanted to see but they cut out.
Now, some awful movie adaptions along the same lines as Eragon (haven't seen Eragon though), Holes. He was supposed to be FAT!! FAT!! Shia LeBeouf didn't look fat in the movie, well not to me.
If anyone's read Ella Enchanted you would know that the movie adaption sucks. None of the characters are the way they're supposed to be, personality-wise. I'm not sure about appearance wise because I was too busy being ticked off the whole time I was watching it. And like someone said about Eragon, you wouldn't know it was the same story unless you read the title.

yeah, i didn't like harry potter 4 either. in the book there were some great stuff, too bad they cut them out 🙁 i'm really curious about the 5th part. the trailer was quite interesting

whatever

i didnt see the 4th one but i really liked the first one

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yeah, the first one and the second one was the best. those two turned out good. the second one was quite horror 😛

whatever

Pride and Prejudice is almost a century old, and it happens to be a favorite of mine.

There was one point in time that I tried to go through as many of the classics as I could, partly out of curiosity and partly because I wanted to be able to see what made them classics. I found that a majority of them don't live up to their names... or perhaps I'm not savant enough to understand their depths. I could not finish The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, and it's still as of today collecting dust on my shelf. (I really should finish it)

I tried some more popular authors' works like IT by Stephen King... but I found that I could not continue "it" ( 😀 ) due to his writing style. Stephen King to me right now is the King of the Sh*t Weasles.

I'm discounting all the books that I've read for school purposes, because I would think that most people have read them as well...

"Books are great. They can sometimes have pictures in them." /laugh

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Pride and Prejudice is almost a millennium old, and it happens to be a favorite of mine.

Errrr a century perhaps, not a millennium! 🤣

I quite enjoyed Tom Jones, but I have to be in the right frame of mind to read that sort of thing. The pace & writing style are a lot different than what's popular today.

"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

lol, right. I caught that mistake after I posted it. 😀

Hey Kraust! I really realy really like ur Ringo avatar!!!!! And books are good too.

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I try hard to read, but... I just love manga. (^w^)/

Nowadays is really hard for me too to read something that doesn't have drawings in it 😛

whatever

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[i]Never[/i] judge a book by its movie.While it is true that there are some adaptions that are rather faithful, there are some that you wouldn't recognize as being from a book if it wasn't for the name. Thinks of Eragon and shudders

Oh jeez, was Eragon really that bad? 😕 I think the Harry Potter movies turned out pretty good, even though they left some stuff out, but that was pretty much expected...

yes it was! they changed the main character from being a naive brat to an insolent pretty boy WITH BLOND HAIR eragons hair is supposed to be brown BROWN. and they also gave arya blond hair WTF. in all the chapters arya was mentioned poulini described with vivid description about arya's black hair.

yeah WB did a good job with harry potter they met all my major expectations and when you look at how long the books were you can hardly blame them for leaving stuff out. and the actors they chose looked exactly like how i pictured them in my head

And don't forget Murtagh... that was a slaughter.

As for Harry Potter, I was disappointed by the things lacking in themovie, but I still enjoyed it.

I go away and suddenly the spammers are the mods. Okay, I can adjust to that, but... Gorath?! And what's up with Mam's not being the top poster?

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I've read tons of books, probably more books than manga. I'm mostly a sci-fi and fantasy reader as well. My favorite author is probably Mercedes Lackey.

If you want a list of authors I remember reading 2 or more books from, here it is:

Piers Anthony
Robert Asprin
Lynne Reid Banks
Anne Bishop
Patricia Briggs
Terry Brooks
Dan Brown
Lois McMaster Bujold
Jacqueline Carey
C.J. Cherryh
Dawn Cook
Rick Cook
John Dalmas
Charles Dickens
David Drake
Raymond E. Feist
Alan Dean Foster
Peter Garrison
Elizabeth Haydon
Robin Hobb
James P. Hogan
Brian Jacques
Gregory J. Keyes
Mercedes Lackey
C.S. Lewis
Jane Lindskold
Holly Lisle
Anne McCaffrey
Robin McKinley
L.E. Modesitt
Elizabeth Moon
Andre Norton
Tamora Pierce
Terry Pratchett
John Ringo
J.K. Rowling
Fred Saberhagen
R.A. Salvatore
Neal Stephenson
R.L. Stine
S.M. Stirling
J.R.R. Tolkien
David Weber
Lauren Weisberger
Steve White

I'm probably missing a lot more authors, but these are the ones I remember. I can't say that I recommend them to people though, because I'm not that confident in my tastes. 😐

what are you talking about most of those author are in the top of my list and i defiantly would recomend the everybody. And i truly understand what you mean by having Mercedes Lackey as your favorite even though i've recently just discovered her. i'd also like to add orson scott card

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And i truly understand what you mean by having Mercedes Lackey as your favorite even though i've recently just discovered her.

You serious? 😲 but she is one of the worst female fantasy writers...her books seem to be written for 13 years old girls. And it's not only my opinion, of course. There are even few quite cruel jokes about her - when I was a journalist, I heard one of them from a fantasy writer. Looks like noone takes her serious. She never got World Fantasy Award (as far as I remember) or any other important award.
You shocked me a bit...

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