I remember the glory days of them in the 70s and 80s.
There would be the novelization. Then the YA novelization. Then the photostory. Then the photobook. And then the audio storybook of the movie (on an LP) with a book.
Terminator has an American novelization and a British novelization. Written by separate authors.
It used to be routine for me to see the movie and get the novelization. If only I’d watched more movies but I was never a big movie goer.
If you don’t, absolutely none of them will read it
Great Expectations?
Or any assigned reading?
Because I can tell you that out of all the assigned reading in high school, the only one that I had to be “forced” to read was The Scarlet Letter. I did not like that book. Everything else may have been assigned reading, but I enjoyed reading them.
The 8th grade is when I first read The Hobbit and LotR.
I tore through the books. Only put them down when I had to — like in class. My oldest brother (6 years older than I was) got the box set. When he finished one book, then I read it. Except when I finished The Two Towers, he had taken The Return of the King on a weekend camping trip. So my middle brother took me to the store and I bought my own copy of RotK and had it read before my oldest brother returned from his camping trip. So, ironically, I started the books after he did and finished the set before he did.
I’ve read them many times since then. Both before and after the movies came out. My favorite way to read them is with The Atlas of Middle-earth beside me because it is the most incredible reading experience to have those maps open while reading what happens at those sites. It gives a whole new dimension to the books.
Years later the movies came out, and as we all know they were incredible
Not to me they weren’t. There were parts that were good, but when I think of LotR, the movies don’t even cross my mind. It’s the books. When I read the books, I visualize nothing from the movies.
As I said, I read the books many times. Last time I saw the movies was when The Return of the King was in the theaters. And I’ll go the rest of my life without ever seeing the movies again. (Unless someone kidnaps me, ties me to a chair and tapes my eyelids open.)
The Stand (Stephen King)
COVID didn’t come close to the superflu.
I love this one from Kerry Greenwood, from the thoughts of Phryne Fisher referring to sexual / romantic relationships…
“Inadvisable doesn’t mean undesirable.”
Glory Road by Heinlein. Main character is a young, adult male.
Book starts out a fantasy and ends up sci-fi. I suppose you could call it science-fantasy.
The Neverending Story with the font colors.
So many plotholes.
But I liked the dog story.
It lagged so much for me that I skipped to the end. Then went back and forced myself to read the middle.
The book doesn’t change, but the reader does. Or it may be that the comfortable familiarity is the point.
From age 12 to 19, I read my copy of Watership Down to ragged edges. At age 19, I got a rabbit. A free roam house rabbit. And I’ve never been able to read Watership Down after that.