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Jay
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Lord of the Rings (all three)

Timeline

Jurassic Park

Comics: X-Men, Spider Man, Superman, Daredevil

Ender's Game - impossible to out due the book!
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Godric
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Lord of the Rings (all three)
Great movies to be sure -- better than could have been expected, really -- but not better than the books.

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Timeline
If true, that must have been a truly awful book.

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Jurassic Park
Possibly. I've never read the book, but the sequels kinda spoiled the fun.

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Comics: X-Men, Spider Man, Superman, Daredevil
No. No. No. Emphatic no. What are you smokin'?

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Ender's Game - impossible to out due the book!
We finally agree! [Big Grin]
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Practically every book that has had a movie made out of it.

The exceptions are exactly that -- exceptions.
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Papa Moose
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Godric, I suggest you re-read the thread title.
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Jay
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Yeah, it's a little hard to post about a book you've never read!

So if you were saying the movies are better then the comics guess I just like it better when they stick to story. Nit pick I guess. Which is one reason they'll have a rough time with Ender's Game. Even though I'm looking forward to it!
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Battlefield Earth
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Godric
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Oops! I am horribly embarrassed!

[Embarrassed]
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Battlefield Earth...Well, I guess it's impossible for the book to be WORSE than the movie.
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Yeah - that was my thought exactly.
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A very long time ago -- I really don't remember much of the book...

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You blocked it out, too, eh?
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Well, I can't imagine a book possibly being as bad as the movie was (John Travolta as a tall balding alien with dreadlocks was a dive into the pit of horrible that I don't want to go into here). And while I'm grateful for what L. Ron Hubbard did for science fiction writing (Writers of the Future is about all it sums up to), I don't know if I'm willing to spend what reading time I have on his work just yet [Smile]
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Wait, there are movies that are better then the book?
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Forrest Gump was better than the book. The book, in my opinion was terrible and dippy.
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Schindler's List as a movie was better than the book, which came off to me as a very dry list of goings-on...
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If the novel of Battlefield Earth had ended where the movie did, I would have considered it a decent (not great, but decent) book. I had to really fight hard to finish it once the book got to that point. Oh, and I read the book first, don't even ask why I tortured myself further with the movie. LOL
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