I started reading The Hobbit today, and I'll be doing it while I am on the bus from now on. One thing I have always loved about books is that one can imagine the characters and places as he pleases, specially the voices, but the thing with this book is that I first saw the movie and now I can't think of Bilbo or Gandalf differently than the actors, every time I read something Gandalf says I imagine Ian McKellens voice, same with Bilbo and the dwarfs, I can't ever imagine a dwarf with an accent that isn't Scottish. A few years ago I remember that I read the Davinci Code and after that they made the movie, I have never seen it, I couldn't imagine the main character as Tom Hanks, it was just wrong, he didn't look or sounded like that, it didn't appeal to me, so I never watched it, that and that I no longer cared for that kind of books, but this isn't what I am talking about, lol.
Apart from that, I have really enjoyed the few pages I have read, it feels so well written, I really like the way J. R. R. Tolkien writes, I read The Fellowship of The Ring a few years ago and I enjoyed it much too, but I read that on my computer and I want to read them on paper.
Yeah, I always read Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins books in their respective voices in my head haha it's pretty cool!
ReplyDeleteI agree, they have a sexy voices :P
Deleteunlike you guys, books and movies dont really exist in the same realm for me...so when i read books after seeing a movie, like fight club, tyler durden was not brad pitt in my head, at all...and the hobbit is an awesome book! i still need to watch the movie...:(
ReplyDelete^^^ Impossible!!!
Deleteit's true, the books are often so different from the movie anyway...so it's like a different story
DeleteYeah, i'm sorry, geli but you're full of it! That happens to everyone lol everyone!
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