Yeah, I saw the movie first and then thought about reading the book, but the synopsis that I read was different enough that I'm not interested in reading it right now with the movie so fresh in my mind. Maybe later when I don't have Miyazaki's Howl at the front of my brain.
Diana Wynne Jones did meet with Miyazaki and give her blessing and discuss what he wanted to do with the film and she's quoted as saying:
"It's fantastic. No, I have no input - I write books, not films. Yes it will be =different= from the book - in fact it's likely to be very different, but that's as it should be. It will still be a fantastic film."
So, I think that reading the book later will be awesome and very seperate from the film, but I've learned to give these thigns a little space. I had to watch the XMen movies twice because they strayed so far afield from the source material that I had to take time to divorce the two in my mind. I basically had to relax about the differences and allow myself to appreciate the movies and the comics and seperate things.
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Diana Wynne Jones did meet with Miyazaki and give her blessing and discuss what he wanted to do with the film and she's quoted as saying:
"It's fantastic. No, I have no input - I write books, not films. Yes it will be =different= from the book - in fact it's likely to be very different, but that's as it should be. It will still be a fantastic film."
So, I think that reading the book later will be awesome and very seperate from the film, but I've learned to give these thigns a little space. I had to watch the XMen movies twice because they strayed so far afield from the source material that I had to take time to divorce the two in my mind. I basically had to relax about the differences and allow myself to appreciate the movies and the comics and seperate things.