Do you read the book first then watch the movie or the other way around?

Like you, I prefer to read the book and then watch the movie. It's just something that I've done for quite a while. However, sometimes, it does happen that I don't get the chance of reading the book before I see the movie, but it's not such a big deal if this happens. It's just that I prefer reading the book first.

I have never seen a movie and than read the book. Only once have I read the book and seen the movie, it was a great disappointment. So I just don't mix the two.

usually i read the book first tthen watch the movie

I dont always see the movie and read the book. usually it is one or the other. Seldom do I do both. I think that I will often read the book and the movie is usually easier to watch so often I will just watch the movie and forget about the book. it is something that I am really interested in doing. book and movie but dont get around to both.

i like reading the book first then watch the movie or not at all. I just get disappointed when the highlights in the book were not in the movie... eg. the da vinci code. I end up hating the movie. so i try not to watch the movie instead and settle to reading...

if for instance, i watched the movie first and then read the book, i still end up getting disappointed with the movie...:(

I'm not real big on watching movies, but I read all the time. I have thought that most times, when I see the big-screen adaptation of a novel I have previously read, that most times the movie doesn't have quite the same impact as the book, especially when it is something along the lines of a Stephen King novel. The eye of the imagination can see more realistically than the eye of the camera, in my opinion.

i only reab the book if it's a biography and i always watch the film after reading the book.

when i read i like to imagine how things are, what places, characters etc look like and how people sound.

i imagine if i watched the film first then my enjoyment of the book would be spoiled and i'd be less determined to finish it as i would know the ending.

I'm really not sure if I've read a lot of books that have turned into movies, or seen movies that originated as a book. The one example I do have is Anne of Green Gables. I saw the movie first, and I loved it. A few years later someone gave me the books as a gift. I read them, and loved them. But I found I enjoyed them both equally, and was glad I had seen the movie first. It made me want to read the books.

I prefer to read the book first. Actually, if I see the movie first, I probably will not ever read the book. I can't think of a book I've read after a movie, but I am thinking of two or three that I have read the book then watched the movie. If you watch the movie first it spoils the fun of the imagination!!

I kinda prefer to read the book first, but some times it just doesn't work out that way. I first discovered Sherlock Holmes thru a Basil Rathbone movie, but Holmes never looked like Rathbone to me. He always looked like William Gillette more to me... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gillette