Chicken or Egg, Book or Movie?
Do you read the book or watch the move first? Come on, you know it's an either-or question. I figure there are two types of people in the world. Actually there are three, but I don't count those who never pick up a book and actually read it. Of the remaining, some read a book and, if they like it, go to see the movie when it comes out...maybe. Others rush to the local MulitPlex and only read the book if a) the movie was really good or b) the movie was really bad and they're curious to find out if the book is any better. I fall securely in the first camp. I'm a writer ergo I read. I rarely go to the movies. I don't want my sense of time, place and character influenced by a casting manager, set designer or film director. I hate seeing a movie where the characters look and sound nothing like what I'd imagined while reading the novel. I'm still trying to process the myriad of Miss Marples's I've seen paraded across the screen: fat, skinny, tall, ...