# Movies that were BETTER than the book they were based on

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-that-were-better-than-the-book-they-were-based-on/806515/68 "2018-01-14T18:46:48Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> I tried reading _The Princess Bride_. I couldn’t even get through the first chapter.

I couldn’t either. But for me the movie has had a heavy-handed visit from the [Suck Fairy](https://www.tor.com/2010/09/28/the-suck-fairy/), too.

I’m also in the boat of not being a fan of _The Hobbit_ and _Lord of the Rings_ books–never even attempted to read them (fantasy not being a strong genre reading intrest for me) until only a few years ago, after the LotR movies came out–I quit on Hobbit around halfway through, quit on Fellowship probably 1/20th of the way through. Tolkien IMHO created interesting worlds but wrote very clumsy dialogue and prose.

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