Nearly 9 short hours ago, I finished reading The Ultimate hitchhikers Guide. Im not going to sum it up because I think that everyone who reads this blog has read, or is in the process of reading it. And really whats the point? The movies in theaters now.
So now Im ready to have everything I imagined and pictured in my head destroyed because in 9 short hours or so we will be watching The Guide on the silver screen. Being only the second real* book Ive ever read, Ive never had the problem a lot of people have with movies being released based on books. I had never read the book and there for the inadequacy of the movie couldnt ruin it for me. This, in my opinion, is one of the greatest flaws of books. Yes, its the books fault, I said it. That is to say, you spend hours upon hours to read an entire book, only to have it ruined by a 2 hour movie. Now Ive seen plenty of these movies that werent up to par with the book and I enjoyed many of them. I guess what Im trying to say is that there are so many things that I want to do with my time and spending 35 hours reading a story that I can spend 2 hours watching just doesnt seem worth it to me.
*Im not implying that Ive read fake books but rather that childrens books arent allowed to be counted when tallying up the number of books ones read.
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