When you read a book, nothing else exists and you can be a whole other person in this completely new and amazing world. Nothing is impossible, nothing is out of reach…Īnd that… that is why books are always better.
You can be in love, you can hate, you can triumph, you can lose. You can be a demigod, you can be an alien, you can be an angel, a god, a villain, a hero. You can be the girl who battles cancer, along with all the pain and uncertainty that comes with it. With a book, you can be the hero who kills the demon with one twirl of your blade. Books? Books let you feel everything, know everything and LIVE everything. You're merely an observer: you aren't feeling everything the character feels, aren't reading every single one of their innermost thoughts, all of their doubts and fears and hopes. They are a pure escape – there's nothing like sitting in the cinema, devoid of any other distraction, focused completely on the story playing on the screen.įilms are great, but they just don't have the same.inclusion that books have. Films can make us see a lot of things – sometimes things that even books cannot do so well. They can have us on the edge of our seats as vicious battle scenes are fought right before us, have us sobbing over a death, a heartbreak or smiling with joy. They can bring whole worlds to life before our eyes, make characters into living, breathing flesh and blood.
The suspense and emotion just didn't project from page to the screen.įilms. They got almost everything exactly right, but it still. The same thing happened with The Hunger Games. So why am I so obsessed with the things they changed? Why am I so much more in love with the book than with the film? But this didn't matter – Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters was absolutely stunning. They changed the plot, of course, and missed various things out, adding others in their place. They got the characters, the world, the creatures, the feel all right. It was so, so much better than its prequel, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and stuck so much closer to the book – something that obviously made me exceptionally happy. The film was amazing – seriously, it blew me away. I re-read the book, made numerous notes, wrote down everything I wanted to see in the film and brought a notebook into the cinema with me, ready to jot down my thoughts as the film played out before me. We all needed to write something on the film and our views on it. I went to see Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters with the Spinebreakers.
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