Interpretation

When I was growing up I loved to read.  When you are too young to watch R rated movies and TV shows involving cancer-ridden-meth-cooker dads you spend your time playing with action figures and reading about kids who are the only ones that can see color (The Giver would make a pretty great short film by the way). 

Nowadays, my curse is only reading books that have been made into movies, or even better, are going to be made into movies in the near future.  I don't know what it is, I cannot simply read a book, I need a secondary payoff, I need to see how it is "actually" going to happen according to someone else's interpretation of the book.  It's like I feel the movie is the only way it can look and I want to read it to see what I would see it as.  I feel like I am describing the creative process of making movies.  

I hate slash love slash hate again knowing who the actors are going to be/are in the movie of a book.  I like starting to read something and having my own vision of the character, then having an opinion on if the actor is good enough for the role.  But then when I know the actor I cannot bring back in my own character.  That happened verbatim with the Hunger Game books.  Then there is the problem of reading the book after the fact.  When I read High Fidelity nobody but Jack Black was in his character, I was listening to him read his parts in my head and it was hilllarious.  It's like my imagination plateaus, I can figure things out to a point then I just say fuck it and want it spoon fed. 

I think what is mainly rooted in this is being a know-it-all.  I am that person who during a movie wants to tell you all the IMDB trivia, or what scenes in a movie obviously make more sense if you read the book.  Game of Thrones is a great example of a way to ruin the experience for someone by not shutting up, I love it, I feel so cultured and smart.  This kind of stuff also makes you a great ringer in bar trivia.

I can't decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing.  It is obviously hindering me from reading other great books.  What I need is someone to just give me books to read and not giving me a choice.  I watch more movies than I read so the movies are just informing me what to read.  Also, ultimately all good books are going to get made into movies anyways so it is hard to escape it.  Nothing seems un-adaptable.  They made Naked Lunch into a movie, I can only imagine how weird that book is because that movie is buhzarre.  This whole post is stemming from just watching the trailer for the new movie Cloud Atlas, which is apparently based on a book.  So what I am trying to say is that if you want to know what I am reading next it will be that THANK YOUUUU.