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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So, in no case did you see any of the movies before you read the respective books.
Even still, I disagree with you (not your experience, of course). It makes no sense to me to watch any movie before you've read the book. Why picture the movie and characters using someone else's imagination? All you're doing is replaying the movie in your mind.
And I didn't think the Lord of the Rings was all that dense. Ulysses is dense (and long). The Lord of the Rings is just long.
TM
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In general, I totally and completely agree with you. I was just searching for the one exception in my experience which really isn't an exception.
It generally doesn't make any sense to me to see a movie before reading the book either, which is why I raced to finish the first one before the movie came out. And more things happen in the second two books (in my reading of them at any rate) to move the pace along considerably.
But the first movie inspired me to want to find out what happens next. Whereas the first book was a chore for me to get through.
(I've since reread all three (I alternate Christmas breaks by rereading the books or rewatching the movies, this year was a movie year) and I don't mind the first one at all now, but again, I think it's because I learned to read Tolkien.)
