Musing Mondays is a meme started over on Should Be Reading that presents a different literary-themed question every week.
This week’s question is: What are you currently reading? And, is it better, as good as, or worse than your last read?
I’m in between books at the moment, but I did just finish The Hunger Games trilogy, the first two of which were rereads for me. I reviewed them here, in large part as a response to having just seen the movie. I thought it would be interesting to read them again after having seen it visually, especially since I only got around to reading The Hunger Games and Catching Fire on the first go around. I’m glad I waited until after watching the movie to reread the books, because I’m sure I would have been unbearably nitpicking about all of the tiny details they had changed otherwise. As it was, I was actually quite impressed by the film adaptation; though it had been four years since I read the first book, overall, the movie played out nearly exactly as I remembered experiencing it in my head while reading. Of course, there were some big departures that I discovered upon revisiting the book, but I didn’t feel that they were significant enough to alter the story fundamentally and thought that many of the additions regarding the Capitol members helped to enhance Collins’ message in a way that first-person narration in the novels didn’t allow for.
I am always a bit nitpicky about the movie versions of books.. and rarely do I not end up with a big pile of nits.
but this one was pretty darn good I thought.
Sometimes I see the movie first….but I don’t plan to do that with this series. So it may be awhile, as I haven’t read any of the books.
Here’s MY MUSING MONDAYS POST
I usually like the book better than the movie. In this case I have not read the book or seen the movie so can’t comment. Here is my post:
MM
I LOVED The Hunger Games – thank you for sharing!
Here’s mine:
http://amylunderman.blogspot.com/2012/04/musing-mondays-to-z-challenge-n-new.html
I tried to watch the movie without being too nitpicky. I thought the book was good but not as good as the movie.
I reallly enjoyed the Hunger Games! Glad you liked it too!
My MM: http://www.pocketfulofbooks.com/2012/04/musing-monday_16.html
I read the enitre series first and then saw the movie. Suprisingly, I wasn’t as nitpicky as I thought I would have been. Too me, the book was still better than the movie. Here is my MM: http://agreatescapebookblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/musing-mondays-7.html