Quick question …

What’s even better than reading a classic book for the hundredth time; a book that you could probably recite from memory? 

Seeing your favorite book come to life on the big screen.

Now, I know what you are saying. So many times, you look forward to the movie adaptation only to be so disappointed that you come out of the theater weeping like the Mock Turtle in Alice Wonderland (I’m looking at you, directors of The Shipping News and The Series of Unfortunate Events! Why, oh, why?). I remember one of my absolute favorite books, which I still read every year at about this time, being made into a movie a couple of years ago. It was the film adaptation of The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, and I couldn’t wait for it to come out. What I hadn’t anticipated was that the director and screenwriters would change just about every aspect of it that made it such a classic book. From the setting to the ending; nothing was sacred. In short, it was a horrible movie and never did well.

That is why I am so looking forward to the film adaptation of The Hobbit. Having seen “The Lord of the Rings” many, many times and loved it’s dedication to the source material, I know that The Hobbit will be beautiful, exciting and faithful to what made “The Hobbit” one of the most important books of the 20th century. If it can even elicit a bit of the feeling I had opening the illustrated version of the Hobbit I was introduced to when I was in Grade 3, it will be wonderful.

You’ve probably seen it but here is the first trailer for “The Hobbit” coming out next year.

Do you have a favorite book that has been made into a movie? Did you like the movie? Let us know in the comments!

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