Do you like to read the book if you have already seen the movie?

I do like to read the book first before watching it on the movie, sometimes it is more excites reading than watching because there are many omitted scene and revisions already in the movies.

i like to read it first than to watch it. the book sometimes describe it more than the movie. just like the twilight saga, i can't figure how Edward or Bela character if i have not read the book first. but just like you too, i don't find any surprising when i watch the movie cause i already know how the end

Yes I like to read the books to movies. It matters not whether they are consider greta or not, as long as I know there is a book written as well, I just have to get the book. I just finished reading the entire Stephanie meyers Twilight books and now reading ehr last book Hots. Can't wait to see the Breaking Dawn movies.

If it is a good story I do. I often find the book better than the movie as movies often change things to suit themselves. I just love reading. I read all the Harry Potter books after seeing the movies and I enjoyed them very much. For me it is not a problem knowing what happens. I suppose it might be a problem if you prefer mysteries but in that case how could you watch a movie twice if you do not like to know the ending. I prefer to think of a book as a journey to be enjoyed. I am not in a hurry to get to the ending. If I already know the ending then I can enjoy the journey without the stress as I know they all end up ok. The Lord of the Rings is one book I have journey in countless times over the years. So often I know that I used to know it almost word for word but I still enjoyed the journey. A film is over so quickly and has to cut out a lot to fit the time. A book has all the little bits that the film left out as not necessary to the plot but to the reader they are still enjoyable.

I do not want to go over it again since I already seen it and besides watching it again rather than reading is much more exciting.

I have no interest to read a book if I have already seen the movie.As regards to me,the actor in the screen will affect my understanding of the book

I do sometimes. My daughter onthe other hand, she reads them before. Then when she watches a movie with us she's so aggrivated because they left out a really good part or a funny part. We can't watch the movie in peace until she's gone because of it.

From my experience, books are better than the movies. Books allow the writter to be more creative. In many cases, what is in the book is hard to display in a movie or would cost way too much to re-create. If you read the book before watching the movie, you will be disappointed with the movie almost all the time.

I do usually prefer reading the book before seeing the movie. That's the way that I like to do it. And it's also the way that I've done it a number of times before, when it comes to movies based on books. It's a nice way to do it. At least, the way that I like to do it for the most part.

I do! I am even excited to see a movie based on a book that I have already read. Sometimes, I buy a book because it's being made into a movie and I want to read it first before seeing it. There are also times when I like a particular movie and learning that it was based on a book i will seek it out just to read it too. It's nice comparing the differences, or how the movie stayed true to the book or not. :)

There is so much we miss in a movie and by reading the book we get what we have lost specially those lines. It is those strong lines that make a movie and many a time the sound system is such one is not able to catch those words. And having a book one can go through it several times. The description of the place is yet another aspect that we can digest by reading the story even after we have seen the movie. I have read a few books, such as Thorn Birds, Woman of Substance, The Other Side of Midnight, Pigmallion (My Fair Lady),Hotel, etc.

Not usually--I much prefer to read the book first, and then see the movie, although I am often disappointed even if I follow that order! The only movies that I think I saw first and then read the books afterward was Gone with the Wind, and the Godfather books, but those movies AND books were so well done that the effect was not ruined by seeing the movie first.

I usually prefer to watch the movie than reading a book because I found it tired to read a whole book. However, sometimes I will read a book after I have watched the movie so as to compare what the film has changed from the original story written in the book and try to think about how I will interpret the story from the author and make it into a film. This sounds a bit time wasting but I think this is quite an interesting way of learning language as well as thinking and imagination.

Many of the movies were taken from books. There are some advantage in reading a version of a movie. Base on my own experience, in the book there are so many scene and emotions that is not shown in the movie. Although you can see the actors as they portrait their character. Also some of the scene in the movies are additives and not really happen in the book version. It is nice to read the book when you really feel the emotions of the characters while reading it. Happy reading.!:)

For me, I always like to read the book before seeing the movie. The movie version usually almost always deviates from the book some (or a lot.) Like Stephen King's "It", the movie was SO different from the book, and left so much out. Also, when you read the book first, you can get into the mind of the characters and understand their motivation and feelings more. In the movie, they have to show what's going through their minds (through their actions and deeds.) When I read a book before the movie like that, it doesn't matter that I know the outcome of the story, to me, it makes it more interesting.

I do sometimes. I would rather read the book first since you can then paint the pictures and get your own perceptions of what you think to be the details of the story. Your mind can just be all creative in its own devises. I loved the movie Shutter Island, it was a real tricky one wasnt it!! Thats the fun of it.

Yes, certainly. I don't like to look the movie after the book, at least not until there is some time passed. That way the small things that they change in the movie don't annoy much. But one thing that makes it impossible to watch the movies after the book is that nearly no personage looks like the one in my head, so i just can't accept them as he part of the story))

I rather prefer to read the story first. Every person imagine the read story on a different way and has got his/her own experience while he/she reads the book. After, it might be interesting to see the movie to share or compare the experience. When you see the film first and read the book afterwards, during the book while you read it you always (even if you don't want to) remember the different scenes of the movie. So it's not your own imagination any more which is going through your mind. Your thoughts are already manipulated.

People who loves to read are frequently disappointed by the movie versions. There have been some great films made from books, but typically, movie versions of books tends to aggrieve readers because they are not just like the book. Usually when a film director works off of an adapted screenplay the results are simply not the same as reading the book. One of the things that annoy readers most about movie versions is the deletion of material in the book while adding a new material not created by the writer. My answer to your question is Yes.

After i have watched the movie of The Lord of the Rings, i decided to read the book and the other books of the Trilogy. Hence, when i have watched the movies of the two other sequel , i now fully understood why this and that was so. For me, i like reading the books, because you can fully understand what are the things that surrounds the mystery, the characters etc. But of course, watching the movie is nicer, though i now know that a movie will be nicer if you have read the book beforehand.