Film better than the book

Lefty said:
The Lord Of The Rings films were better than the books?

Never in a million years. The films were excellent mind you.
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The fellowship of the ring drags on and on in the book. Tolkien took 5 years to write it and stopped part way through. I think he wrote the hobbit in the hiatus.

You can tell, it seems even Tolkien got bored with it.

The books are really not very good, too long, too rambling.
 
Laughing said:
The fellowship of the ring drags on and on in the book. Tolkien took 5 years to write it and stopped part way through. I think he wrote the hobbit in the hiatus.

You can tell, it seems even Tolkien got bored with it.

The books are really not very good, too long, too rambling.
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I read Lord of the Rings when I read all of the BBC Big Read books. It was the nations favorite. It was my worst.

The Big Read series was broadcast on BBC Two from 18 October to 13 December 2003.
Web, SMS, phone and interactive voting ended on 11 December and only the phone vote was opened briefly for the duration of the final programme on 13 December.
Here is the final ranking of the Top 21 books based on all votes that were submitted throughout the series.
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1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
 
atypical_boro said:
TBH, films are just better than books in general if you ask me. Can’t remember the last time I read a novel, the Damned United probably, which was also a good film. Films are just more efficient.

I tried to read the sequel to the Damned United, about Shankly, and it was just a horrifically bad book.
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Doctor Zhivago - iconic scenes in the film, hard to replicate in a book. Similiar to Gone with the Wind.
 
Laughing said:
The fellowship of the ring drags on and on in the book. Tolkien took 5 years to write it and stopped part way through. I think he wrote the hobbit in the hiatus.

You can tell, it seems even Tolkien got bored with it.

The books are really not very good, too long, too rambling.
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Not long enough, actually.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
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Sorry man, I just think my concentration span is too short in the smartphone era. I’ll use audiobooks now, but have never listened to one that’s a novel. I’m the same with American series tbh, I am usually only willing to dedicate a few nights to something, not several weeks/months and I get so little time to myself these days as it is.
 
Malaguena said:
Only if you haven't got the intellect or mental capacity to follow them 😉
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Aye that will be it. I managed the unabridged the stand without getting bored.

The wizard of earth sea trilogy is better than Lord of the rings but doesn't have the detailed mythology, just better stories. Also jed would kick gandalf a boney ****.

I would also classify magician and the follow ups as better stories. Some of the riftwar stories are a bit naff but the trilogy alone are superb.
 
atypical_boro said:
TBH, films are just better than books in general if you ask me. Can’t remember the last time I read a novel, the Damned United probably, which was also a good film. Films are just more efficient.

I tried to read the sequel to the Damned United, about Shankly, and it was just a horrifically bad book.
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I will have to disagree with you on that one. I have seen 100s of films and read well over a 1000 books and I can only think of a handful of films that come close to the books I have read, I just really enjoy getting lost in the world of a book and letting my imagination run wild within the book.
 
Druss_The_Legend said:
I will have to disagree with you on that one. I have seen 100s of films and read well over a 1000 books and I can only think of a handful of films that come close to the books I have read, I just really enjoy getting lost in the world of a book and letting my imagination run wild within the book.
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Tbh I expect I’m in the minority on this. I just have no patience 😂.
 
I like the LotR books and the films but the books are tedious at times. They were a bit of a slog to get through. So much unnecessary stuff, endless songs, descriptions of food and the whole Tom Bombadil part was pointless.

Some of it was better in the books but the films did a very good job. The only bit I don't like is the ghost army. They were similar in both but it was too easy in the films. There are too many endings as well. The extended version of the films are overly long but at least they miss out the scouring of the shire.
 
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