{"id":59,"date":"2012-02-28T18:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2014-05-18T14:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T18:13:05","slug":"books-movies-based-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/books-movies-based-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books &#038; movies based on books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read a book and watch the movie based on the book. I find that whichever one comes second will be pretty ho hum &#8212; so I just pick one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>I made a couple of exceptions recently for books on <a href=\"http:\/\/scifilists.sffjazz.com\/lists_books_rank1.html\"><strong>Sci-Fi\u00a0 Lists<\/strong><\/a>. I read <strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong> and <strong>Interview With the Vampire<\/strong> even though I&#8217;ve seen both of those movies more than once. My experience was different with the two books.<\/p>\n<p>I expected to enjoy <strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong> &#8212; I&#8217;m a big fan of dinosaurs and I really like the movie. But the book was pretty ho hum &#8212; it&#8217;s very similar to the movie. I felt, though, that I would have liked it a lot if I&#8217;d read it without seeing the movie. As for other Michael Crichton books, I&#8217;m planning on reading <strong>Sphere<\/strong> one of these days &#8212; I think enough time has passed since I&#8217;ve seen that movie and it didn&#8217;t have a big impact on me.<\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Interview With the Vampire<\/strong>, I had some hope that it would be great because I very much enjoyed Anne Rice&#8217;s <strong>The Witching Hour<\/strong> and its sequels. <strong>Interview<\/strong> was similar to the movie too, but for some reason I got more out of it. Maybe enough time has passed since I saw the movie, or maybe the book just has more to offer. I haven&#8217;t been reading many sequels lately, but I expect to read more of Anne Rice&#8217;s vampire books sometime.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>{4.5\/5} <strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong> (movie)<\/li>\n<li>{3.5\/5} <strong>Jurassic Park<\/strong> (book)<\/li>\n<li>{4.5\/5} <strong>Interview With the Vampire<\/strong> (movie)<\/li>\n<li>{4.5\/5} <strong>Interview With the Vampire<\/strong> (book)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually read a book and watch the movie based on the book. I find that whichever one comes second will be pretty ho hum &#8212; so I just pick one or the other. I made a couple of exceptions recently for books on Sci-Fi\u00a0 Lists. I read Jurassic Park and Interview With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7,9,6,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","tag-book","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5012,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}