Comments on: Books and TV/Movies http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/2010/02/11/books-and-tvmovies/ Tales of a former indie bookseller Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:21:00 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kathryn Carson http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/2010/02/11/books-and-tvmovies/comment-page-1/#comment-15560 Kathryn Carson Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:38:33 +0000 http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/?p=1069#comment-15560 How many books have I read _after_ seeing the movie/show? Scores, easy. Couldn't list them even if I tried. Often, the movie/show just can't compete with the depth available to print. But like you, I generally manage to enjoy the movie/show on its own merits. However, I _can_ actually list a movie that was better than the book: _The English Patient_. The movie took the best elements of a disjointed, frankly brutal book about the arbitrariness of nationality and edited them together into one of the best movies I've ever seen about the obsessions between lovers. It's sensual, it's erotic, it's gorgeously filmed, and it made for a romance that even hard-boiled anti-romantics like myself could fall for. IMHO, of course. ;-) How many books have I read _after_ seeing the movie/show? Scores, easy. Couldn’t list them even if I tried. Often, the movie/show just can’t compete with the depth available to print. But like you, I generally manage to enjoy the movie/show on its own merits.

However, I _can_ actually list a movie that was better than the book: _The English Patient_. The movie took the best elements of a disjointed, frankly brutal book about the arbitrariness of nationality and edited them together into one of the best movies I’ve ever seen about the obsessions between lovers. It’s sensual, it’s erotic, it’s gorgeously filmed, and it made for a romance that even hard-boiled anti-romantics like myself could fall for. IMHO, of course. ;-)

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