Media Spoiler and Books

[cacian]

Does it affect your choice in that a book has been televised before you actually get to read it?
Iwas dragged onto the cinemas to watch the very first Harry Potter movie.
It was tedious all the way through I decided not to read any of her books after that at the dismay of my friends who were avid fans.
I think most of them did watch the movie first. It seemed to have gone the right way for them because Media has in a way advertised the JK Rolling books for her.
The other thing I wondered about is whether she wrote the entire series on her own. The fact that she decided to go for a masculine pen name made me think twice.

[CarpeNixta]

Yes, at least in my case.

If I see something in a movie or TV and find it uninteresting I don't even try to get the book. I did buy some of Harry Potter books but only as presents never felt like reading them myself.

[Calidore]

Does it affect your choice in that a book has been televised before you actually get to read it?
Iwas dragged onto the cinemas to watch the very first Harry Potter movie.
It was tedious all the way through I decide not to read any after that at the dismay of my friends who were avid fans.
I think most of them did watch the movie first. It seemed to have gone the right way for them because Media has in a way advertised the JK Rolling books for her.
The other thing I wondered about is whether she wrote the entire series on her own. The fact that she decided to go for a masculin pen nanme made think twice.

Masculine pen name? Her name is Joanne. She just publishes with her initials.

Also, the first two movies were made by Chris Columbus, who can generously be described as a hack, so don't judge the books by them.

[Greatone]

of course it happened , who first movie wuthering heights released 1932
i ve read it 2012 !
the movie blindness was bad , spartacus was good
there is a logic that says if you have read the book and then play the movie , so movie is bad
or at least you can say : it was nice
but
if you watch the movie without reading the book , movie is ok or at least medium for you.

[cacian]

Masculine pen name? Her name is Joanne. She just publishes with her initials.

Also, the first two movies were made by Chris Columbus, who can generously be described as a hack, so don't judge the books by them.

she used her initials( instead of full names) because she wanted to appear as a male writer.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

she used her initials( instead of full names) because she wanted to appear as a male writer.

I agree that she probably did . . . maybe not so much to appear as a male writer, but just to not appear as a female one at first glance. The reality is, if you're not writing sappy romance novels, having a female name and not already being an established author is going to hurt sales. It's stupid, but it is what it is. She's hardly the first female author to hide behind her initials.

[Delta40]

Are you judging her for using her initials? I agree with MM's comments. An unestablished female author may find it harder to take the world by storm. Better to deal with realities when it comes to the fiction you're writing. I know I'd use initials! Gender aside, JK Rowling actually sounds much better on the ears than Joanne Rowling anyway.

[RicMisc]

Yes. I for one find it hard to read a book after seeing the movie. Especially when it's right after watching the movie. I keep turning pages in a book to find out what happens to the characters, when I know the ending that incentive is gone and I find it hard to get through the book.

If I wait long enough though, sometimes I forget enough to make me interested enough to read the book. For example, I read Eragon a couple of years after I had seen the movie and I finished the book in no time :).

[Seasider]

What point were the following writers trying to make?
DH Lawrence
HG Wells
EE Cummings
EM Forster
AE Housman
CP Cafavy
JB Priestley
CS Lewis

Charlotte Bronte wrote under a pseudonym because she thought that she wouldn't be taken seriously. She had good reason to think this. She wrote for advice about her writing to the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. He replied thus
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it, even as an accomplishment and a recreation.

Something of this view still lingering in the early stage of this thread.