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Totally agree, movies based on books suck if you have read the book. I think it's because of all the elements you get from a book that no matter who the director/producer can never be touched on, such as a characters thoughts. There's no way you can incorporate those in a movie. I also think that the entertainment value they try to put on movies muddles some of the best aspects of the story. Plus when you read something yourself you create your own visualizations, and when they end up being way off what you expected you come away even more disappointed.

It would take more explaining than this but the short story is that the Capitol is the only place with all of that technology, at least until the third book, and the 12 districts outside of the capitol all have issues with starvation except for maybe district 2.

I have not seen or read the hunger games. I have read many books that became movies and they are always disapointing. Books are always better.

You forgot Shawshank Redemption! Excellent movie and novella. People forget Stephen King isn't just a horror writer. The guy can write a story.

Anybody read the "Odd Thomas" series by Dean Koontz? I actually like his stuff better than Stephen King's and someone told me that this was the next books I should buy.

No but I have a friend that read it and he loved it.

I agree with the ending of the third book and the forced endings of some of the characters. If they try and keep the third book at PG-13 then it will be awful. I was really disappointed in how they portrayed the killings in the first movie compared to the book. The closest thing to actually seeing someone killed was the Rue/Marvel scene and you didn't see anything really. The tracker jacker thing with Glimmer was dulled way down as well. I don't know how they are going to fake some of the stuff in book 3.

It's kind of hit or miss with me and King's horror books. Some are awful and some are awesome. Pet Semetary, Cujo and It are some of my favorite horror books of all time. There are others that were just awful and I kept waiting on them to get good and next thing you know the book was over.

I've never read a Dean Koontz book I didn't like though. When we talked about "The Dark Tower" series I could have sworn that it was a Koontz series but I was about 15 when I read them. I completely forgot that those books were by King and I think those are the only science fiction/fantasy books that I have ever read from him. I have almost completely forgot the storylines but I heard they are making movies out of that trilogy so I'm just not going to reread them.

If I reread the books it would just absolutely ruin the movies. Actually outside of Shawshank and Green Mile, King's books have been more brutalized in the movies than any other out there I think. "It" was okay and the one about the devil that owned the antique shop was pretty good but other than that.

The Stand was one of his that I liked. Also liked Salem's Lot.

lord of the rings trilogy movies were awesome, as were the books.

the hobbit is also looking amazing. book was better than lotr, imo, so i got high hopes for movie.

also, the game of thrones series has been very good, though i must admit i've only read book 1 and it was after seeing the 1st season, so it probably wasn't as good as if i'd read it before hand.

I agree with you. I read Hunger Games, but haven't watched the movie because I expect it to suck. I loved the Girl w/ Dragon Tatoo series, but the movie really, really was boring. It's pretty much the same every time...movies never as good as the book, so I quit expecting them to be a long time ago.

Just to be clear, and I'm sure I just misunderstood you, the old Dark Tower books were actually finished in recent years, so there are 5-6 of them I think. I read them all back to back, so I lost count. (i.e., it's not just a trilogy anymore)