I picked up this book and went in blind knowing nothing about whats it about..So i started reading “Handmaids tale “ last week and was loving the book .. finished half a book in 3 days or so ( woth work and other things).. howeve curiosity got the best of me and i looked up its name and the show came up.. i avoided it for sometime but then i watched an episode.. i hated how everything seemed wrong ( from how i had imagined).. now i cant read this book that i really really loved..
by Jo_friend
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No, I can’t say I have had this experience. I find it simple to separate an adaptation from its source material.
I started watching The Power, then I bought the book… Never finished the show.
The Handmaid’s Tale had a great adaptation in series one. I couldn’t watch anything beyond it as it wasn’t based on anything Attwood wrote.
As to the issue of the show being wrong to how you imagined it… That’s not usually a problem for me, other than Ms Coulter in the movie adaptation of The Golden Compass. I just couldn’t watch it.
Sort of. I won’t watch something in the middle of reading it, but I have firmly decided that it’s better to read the book first before watching a screen adaptation.
Just the opposite – two examples (“The Expanse” and “Silo”) where I found the books, and read them eagerly. Both turned out to be better than the show (although The Expanse was a very good show).
Yes if the ending is spoiled. Non fiction I’ll certainly finish the book, as there is much more info contained within it.
Yes! Halfway through the Outlander books and TV shows the plot shifted so much that I couldn’t keep track of both at the same time. There were minor differences for a while, but I could handle them until a certain point.
I don’t think I could watch the Wheel of Time series while reading the books. As far as I remember, they seem to have the same results, but get there in VERY different ways.
There’s no wrong. The book and the show exist separately. Your imagination and the director’s imagination can’t be the same. It’s just an interpretation of the book.