BOOKS to read BEFORE watching the movie thread - need suggestions

[johnnyredstorm]

i loved savages (book) but i absolutely despised the movie..

oliver stone needs to lay off the green a little.

oliver stone sucks period. dude's a bum.

 

[1criollo]

Black Hawk Down

The Finish & No Easy Day - Zero Dark Thirty

Where the Red Fern Grows

Generation Kill (Even though its a miniseries)

 

[cocotaso1]

if you watch game of thrones, you should read the series.

I wanna read these but they're soooooo long. :\

they are long as ****, but to me that was the good part. i didn't want the stories to end.

 

[mugzbo]

I always felt A Clockwork Orange was that rare case where the movie was better than the book. Loved it.

It also might be where when I first read the book, I had a vision of the setting being in 60's, 70's Russia when it was at it's poorest and things were truly ****** up and wild things must've been going on like the book said. Don't take me wrong, I thought Kubrick did a great job of interpreting the book and putting it in a futuristic environment. Definitely interesting stuff in the movie, I just wasn't expecting it. I certainly liked both and would put Clockwork as one of the reads that never get old.