When you gotta rush to read the book.
I wanna say it was last year, but maybe it was this year that I read The Shining. Ah, no, my respective Instagram post says it was sometime in May of 2017 that I was reading it. Wow, I've had all this time then. Where am I going with this? I read The Shining. During or after my read I'd learned of Doctor Sleep, the sequel novel that came out in 2013, 36 years after its famed predecessor. The Doctor Sleep adaptation is scheduled for release later this year, November 8, 2019.
I'm almost certain I tried to borrow the eBook or an audiobook version, but understandably there was a lot of demand. I can't recall if I'd ever gotten to borrow it. It might have been something that auto-borrowed and maybe I just didn't have the time to read. Well now I'm wishing I had made time.
Truly, I doubt I'll be seeing this movie without reading the book first. But that's what I want my viewing experience to be. I want to be able to consume the adaptation knowing the source material. Even more so considering I've read the first book in the series.
For me this generally isn't the case. That runs especially true with adaptations of popular YA series. I'll watch the film if it looks good to me. Sometimes I'm inspired to read the book or the graphic novel, or whatever source material after the fact, but more often than not that's the exception and not the rule.
Wow, I'm writing this and slowly coming to the realization that that's about a month away. Guess who just put in a request for the eBook through Overdrive? Maybe I'll chance upon a physical copy one of these days available for borrowing. Libraries are really swell.
I'm almost certain I tried to borrow the eBook or an audiobook version, but understandably there was a lot of demand. I can't recall if I'd ever gotten to borrow it. It might have been something that auto-borrowed and maybe I just didn't have the time to read. Well now I'm wishing I had made time.
Truly, I doubt I'll be seeing this movie without reading the book first. But that's what I want my viewing experience to be. I want to be able to consume the adaptation knowing the source material. Even more so considering I've read the first book in the series.
For me this generally isn't the case. That runs especially true with adaptations of popular YA series. I'll watch the film if it looks good to me. Sometimes I'm inspired to read the book or the graphic novel, or whatever source material after the fact, but more often than not that's the exception and not the rule.
Wow, I'm writing this and slowly coming to the realization that that's about a month away. Guess who just put in a request for the eBook through Overdrive? Maybe I'll chance upon a physical copy one of these days available for borrowing. Libraries are really swell.
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