too many times have pretentious folk (mostly hipsters) uttered the words "have you read the book?" or more condescendingly, "i can't believe you haven't read the book!"
this trend seems to be rife as people theses days seek to undermine those who they feel or want/need to feel possess a lesser intellectual capacity or experience in life with regards to culture in the broader sense. i found this with life of pi, where the wild things are, the hobbit (not so much as it's almost purely a popcorn movie), fear and loathing in las vegas, fight club, fantastic mr fox, a clockwork orange, no country for old men, the kite runner and a few others. mostly with books that are considered cult classics ie not books like twilight, harry potter etc. i'm talking books that could be considered fairly 'high-brow'.
here's a great article entitled Do movies need to be faithful to the books they're based on?
i encourage reading and i too find myself picking up a book or 2 every few months, but don't ever make those who choose not to read feel inferior or less cultured. some folk are more visual or don't have the patience for books. when where the wild things are, life of pi, and fantastic mr fox came out some folk were on about how they grew up reading the book and have an attachment to it (nostalgia and all that) and some were rather perturbed when/if the movie "didn't stay true to the book". who cares, a movie is usually a re-interpretation of a work of literature perfect eg the hobbit - i, along with (few) others had no problem with jackson adapting his own version for the screen whereas tolkien fans and fans of the books were livid. i also found with the lord of the rings trilogy that some hated the movies but loved the books and it seemed as though it was more the fact that they were able to complete a 1137 page trilogy in a short space of time which automatically places them on the highest cloud of judgement allowing them to pass down life lessons to the less educated.
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