Movies before books? Books before movies?

[afuna]

[Poll #1155065]

(This comes from a discussion that aveleh and I are having, because I haven't seen/read The Princess Bride, but I have both the movie and the book on hand, but started reading the book first).

Comments

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

Preferably, I would read the book first before the movie is released, especially one that I would want to see on the big screen. But there have been a few instances where I saw the movie first before reading the book, and it in no way harmed my enjoyment of the book.

Of course, I'm a bit weird in that it is literally hard to spoil me on something, and I happen to be a horribly slow reader, so it would make sense for me to go ahead and see the movie now while it's still out, and to read the book later. Obviously, this doesn't apply to most people. ^^;;

By the way, as far as "The Princess Bride" goes, I've both seen the movie and read the book, in that order (because I didn't know the book existed). Both are definitely worth it. Now, I've heard from other folks that they loved the movie better than the book, but I thought the book was at least as good.

In any case, enjoy! :D Edited to add: D'oh! Looks like you already did. ;)