Books are better than Movies!

Okay, I previously put together a list of Movies that I enjoyed watching more than reading the Books. I promised I would put together a list of Books that I found better than the movies as well. This is that list. 

1) The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers: I loved Tom Bombadil in the first book and was very disappointed he was removed from the film. Yes it doesn't really contribute much to the mission they are on, but it adds a lot of flavor. While the first book is Hobbit heavy (the reason I disliked the third book) there is enough of the two fun hobbits (Merry and Pippin) that its still a better book than movie. 

2) World War Z: Three words, No Fast Zombies!

3) Harry Potter Series: Okay, I won't break down each book or give specifics events. The biggest thing is all the little flavor lore in the books that is missing from the movies, there is a TON of it. Probably next, which is common in books to movie adaptions is the characters thoughts. Reading the ideas and thoughts of the characters is important.

4) The Hobbit: This may not be fair as all three movies aren't out yet, but I am worried that the movies will become too drawn out. I loved The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins was awesome in it as were the dwarves. 

5) Chronicles of Narnia Series: Okay, again this may not be fair, there have been multiple attempts to adapt the series for movies and thus far no one has been able to complete it. While I have enjoyed the films that have been released, the books that are skipped over or missing just expand on the lore of Narnia too much.

6) Interview with the Vampire: I love the Vampire books by Anne Rice. When she "found god" and stopped writing them I was very disappointed. These were mature books about vampires who did vampire things rather than a love story. I found Interview to be very different from the others. While I was first reading it I can recall asking my mother who were favorite character in it was and was shocked to hear her say Lestat. I hated Lestat, and continued to hate him throughout the book. When the movie came around I didn't feel that same loathing for the character that I had when reading the book.

7) Queen of the Damned: What is wrong with this movie? Its okay and has some decent music but the real problem comes from the fact that it is a VERY BAD ADAPTION of not only one, but two books. This movie completely changes the back story for the main character of Lestat (who I will say is my favorite character in the series, Yes from loathed to my favorite) and then only spends about 10 minutes going over events from the Title namesake. The rest of the movie is a bad adaption of the preceding book 'The Vampire Lestat'. I will say that this movie is easily the worst film adaption I have ever seen.

8) The Shining: Okay this book is just plain scary. The movie is good, but this is the only book I have ever read to actually give me nightmares. I can recall reading it in winter during a snow storm and the way King describes the wind outside the hotel and my window just gave me goosebumps.

9) Bridge to Terabithia: It may be an age thing, but when I first read this book it reminded me a lot of 'On My Honor' a book I had read earlier (though this book was published first) and at the time it was only the second book to make me cry. I hated when Leslie died and Jesse loses his friend. The movie is good, but it didn't have the same effect on me as reading the book did.

So there you have my list. Its incomplete and probably won't ever be completed considering how much I read and watch movies. I know its not a very good mix of Genres, I mean the whole list is made up of either Horror or Fantasy. I apologize for that but it seems that a lot of Sci-Fi books that I have read haven't actually been turned into film. Nor have many of the historical fiction novels.

Its quite a shame really because I think that there would be some really good movies to be made from them.