The books I read and the movie I never saw series

Date:Wednesday,22nd of December,2021
Day 22 prompt: about "a movie/book"
Published by: Greatwolfman

I spent most of my childhood reading books and a better half seeing movies but hardly ever do you see the movie to a book you had read.

The big question is this

"Would you prefer reading a novel or seeing the movie to that novel?"

Personally, I prefer the latter, when I read a novel, I'm able to create a mental image of each movie scene where each actor plays their parts perfectly. I could spend hours, days even weeks reading and I won't be bothered about what happens around me for that moment (except when I take breaks to eat).

Anyway, I created a list of books/movies that fit into this list, here are a few books I would recommend you read. I won't drop any spoiler, just enough info that will spur you to want to read the books.

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The Mediator

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This is still my No.1 novel, I still go back to it every time, I can't seem to tire of reading it. I came across this book in High School, a friend brought the series to school, I accidentally stumbled upon a part of it, after reading chapter 1, I just knew I had to continue.

It is a series written and published by Meg Cabot. The series is built upon a character, Suze Simon who has the supernatural ability to see and talk to ghosts, a gift that was passed down from a grandmother.

This would have been just like any other story until she moved to California to stay with her stepfather and brothers only to discover her room once belonged to Jesse (a ghost who inhabited the room), this ghost must have had all the perfect requirements because Suze ended up falling deeply in love with this ghost, what will happen next? Read it to find out.

The movie isn't out yet but I know I won't even think of seeing the movie, I have a perfect image of each scene from the book in my head, why would I want to ruin it?

You

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This book was referred by the president of our book club years back, long before the movie was produced. I remember reading it back then and watching it progress slowly from normal to creepy and I just knew I had to finish this book.

The book was written by Caroline Kepnes, a beautiful work of art I must add, writers should be respected for their ability to produce precise thoughts that could fuel our imaginations.

"You" is a story about a young man -Joe- and his obsessions over a particular lady, they often say it takes a genius to be a serial killer but you need to be even better to be a stalker like Joe, he was a real genius, he just didn't channel this gift towards the right direction. Will he get the girl? Find out on your own

After

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I hate that I saw the movie, it didn't quite do justice to the story, the book had so many details, and I can imagine how hard it would be to transfer those details to the screen. The producers tried to keep to the scripts but not quite.

The book is a perfect description of what a Toxic relationship looks like, I didn't really approve of some of the decisions the characters made but then again I kept on anticipating what would happen next even though I knew exactly what would happen.

The book was written by Anna Todd originally on Wattpad. When I read the book on Wattpad, the original characters were "One Direction" boy band, Harry, Zayn, Niall, Liam, and Louis, so I read it using their faces as the images of my characters.

Tessa ends up falling in love with the most broken person in school Harry/Hardin, well, you all know how that goes right? Wrong, read it to find out.

Harry Potter

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It was many years since the movie was produced that I saw it, and I must say it is the only book I've read so far whose movie didn't disappoint. I was a little kid and was still going through my "abracadabra" phase.

Harry Potter was written by J.K. Bowling but I'm willing to bet you all knew that, it tells the story of how a young gifted boy and his friends went up against the greatest forces of darkness.

I believed in magic as a kid, I even had a magic wand. There was a day I had an argument with my mom and I packed my bag saying I wasn't going to come back home as I was planning to go to Hogwarts. I didn't mind if I would be classified as a muggle-born. It was a long magic phase.

You can imagine my excitement when I finally saw the movie, it was simply my thoughts brought to life, completely magical.

I will stop here for today, I'm a bit exhausted and I still have quite the journey tomorrow back home for the holidays, I plan to be really productive during this break.

Feel free to add more books/movies to the list, I will definitely check it out

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