Lord of the Rings. Saw the first movie when it came out, found out it was based on books and went straight to the book store after the movie. Turns out every man and his dog wanted to read the first book, so only books 2 and 3 were available. I got them and waited almost 2 months before the first book (in the same style as the other 2 books) was back in stock again. My sister had gotten the brick size version with the 3 books and she never finished the book.

The 1996 version of Emma with Gwyneth Paltrow as Emma. I don’t know what it was about the movie, but it completely put me off Jane Austen as a child and if my sister were to watch any other Austen movie, I wouldn’t stick around to watch it. It wasn’t until The Jane Austen Book Club was a movie, and I watched that, found out that it was based on a book, read the book, that I would give Jane Austen a go. I decided to start with Emma before the 2020 version came out and enjoyed both the book and 2020 version. I also felt vindicated over the fact that I knew as a child that there was no way that Emma would be engaging in archery as a past time and the book confirmed it for me. Still no idea why the archery was included in the movie.