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Whats your favorite book? EDIT: apologies I don’t respond to your recommendations but I highly appreciate the community hooking me up with good reads. Stay lit with literature. <3 (lemmy.world)

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Need to get back into reading. Usually read horror literature and Russian works. But regardless, tell me your favorites !

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[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

How does a movie craze ruin your favorite book, if you haven't even seen any of the movies? I wouldn't let it do that.

And even if you watched the movies - Which I wouldn't recommend. I only watched the first and wasn't too impressed, although I haven't even read the book either. - you could still love the book and just hold the opinion, that the movies weren't a great adaptation.

[–] Varpeggio@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago

The first movie of the modern trilogy is mostly exposition and world building, and it does drag. The second movie builds off the foundation of the first in a glorious way; the stakes are felt and it is truly a cinematic masterpiece. Some of the shots in that film give me goosebumps just thinking about them.

[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I still love the book. But whenever I mention it, it's always something like "oh, it's the movie book, right?" or something like that. And no, that's not a reaction that makes me happy.

I've read the book decades before the movie happened and I loved it. I don't want to be tossed in the same bag with all these "I'm a huge Dune fan, it's the best movie ever" people. So I usually don't mention it.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

Alright, so you don't let the movies stop you from loving it, but from telling people, that you do. That's different and unerstandable.