Oh yes, I have! My book of this sort was Harry Potter, actually.
I tried to get into the books when I was younger, but I could never force myself to read them. They were dull to me, or else I couldn't get into them.
I had never liked books before.

Then I saw the movie, and wanted to read the books too. My step father bought the set for me, which was only 1-4 at the time, and I read them all in the space of about three months. That's when I first decided that books were cool, and I started to go to my library.

Considering that I'm now an avid reader/book nerd, and that I'm going to be a writer/editor, I can happily say that Harry Potter changed my entire life, all from a single movie.


Now, though, I generally read then watch. My exception is Lord of the Rings, of which I have never managed to get ahold of the first book to read. I have read The Hobbit, though.

I was really disappointed by it as well. I saw Philippa Gregory in person about a year beforehand and was pumped for the movie when she mentioned it, but it was just really mediocre. I mean, they didn't even bother to mention that Mary's first husband died or go into her second romance. The whole point was that the movie was about Mary, not Anne. If they make another one of her novels into a film I hope the director does a better job of it.

Yeah I read first the books before watching like Matlida, Charlie & the chocolate factory,memoirs of a geisha..

hmm there are a lot more but more recently I watched gossip girl tv series first before the book. Gotta say through the book version is awesome but the show is good too.

I always see a movie if I've previously read the book. I rarely like them as much as I think I will but I still always try to see it. I just found out recently that at some point in the eighties they made The Westing Game into a film and now I'm trying to find it.

As for movies seen before I read the book there has only been one. I saw Howl's Moving Castle Long before I read the book. I didn't even know about the series when I saw the movie and I'm glad I didn't. If I had read that book first there is no way I could love that movie the way I do. It is soooo very different.

Yes I have!
I always wanted to see Twilight but never had a chance to go to the movies and it wasn't out to rent yet so I decided to read the book. I got bored of the book because I thought it was going to slow but I ended up downloading Twilight on some site and I LOVED it.

Edward is soo cute. ^_^

Like most of you, I also prefer reading before seeing.
Um.
The only ones I can think of right now, that I saw the movie before reading the book, include:
The Princess Bride
The Neverending Story
2nd & 3rd LotR
The Duchess
The Bourne trilogy (never was interested in the books. Only reason I saw the movies was because my boyfriend wanted to)
The Notebook
Atonement (again, only because sis wanted to see it)

Um. If there are any others, most likely I'm not even aware that it was a book in the first place.

I usually watch the movie first, then I see that the movie was based on a book. I read the book and I usually find that the book and film are equally good.

Now I add to the list above: I saw The DaVinci Code on TV today. Still have yet to read the book.
I'm sure I could find it at the library. Question is finding the time to read it.

I usually like to see the movies of books I like, I usually end up dissapointed... Harry Potter, Eragon, and plenty of others that escape me at the moment! There's plenty of movies based off books I like that I want to see, too. Charlie, whioch is based fof FLowers for Algernon is what come immeditely to mind. <3 I love that booK!

The only movie I've seen where I decided to read the book is Forrest Gump... And I didn't like the book much at all, as much as I love the movie. The movie was WAY better. Forrest was a totally different (and more lovable) character, and the ending was so much more touching. Plus, the whole thing was just generally less outlandish.

I watched Howl's Moving Castle before I even knew that there was a book. Then I read the book and I loved it as well as the movie. I think that this is the only time where I'm all, "The book AND the movie are great!" I think it's because they both have their own... personality, flair, what-have-you. The movie doesn't ruin the book, not for me; it sort of expands from it, or something. Acquires new life of its own without immediately falling flat and making a fool out of itself.

Am I making any sense? :P Sorry if I'm not, I'm kind of tired right now!

This happens to me a LOT, actually. Both ways.
I saw and loved Memoirs of a Geisha, so I picked up and read the book.
I read and loved Bridge to Terabithia, so I had to go see the movie and keep my fingers crossed they didn't dissect the story into nothingness. (They didn't! yay!)

LOTR made me pick up the books, but nothing could keep me interested in The Hobbit so I set it down eventually and went back to my normal books.

My very favorite book series ever has mild rumors being spread around that someone is looking to make a movie of it. This would send girlish gleeful spasms through me that I might not recover from. And if they screw it up, I might not recover from that either, lol.
I'm a big book fan. I hate movies that rape the stories they're adapted from.

Yes....
This has happened to me just once...
I usually read the books before they get made into a movie..
But I don;y know how I missed Twilight!!!!:o

But still I loved the book even after the movie..
the movie was great..thought it was the best romantic movie after Titanic..
The book lived up to my expectation.

I read the whole series straight in a week.

I prefer to read a book before the movie. My imagination is overactive. Most of the time the book is way better than the movie. I just finished reading My Sister's Keeper and the movie is coming out. I hope it doesn't disappoint. The Harry Potter movies are ok, but nothing like the books. The worst is the Tales of Despereaux. I read that every year to my third graders and this past Christmas my students were so excited that the movie was coming out. They were also very disappointed. It is absolutely nothing like the book. So much is changed. The kids liked the book better.

That always happens to me,

Like for instance I watch Gossip Girl so then i decided to read the series once i knew that there was a series

I also like to read the books before the movies just to compare how there different.

I'm with the "read the book first" crowd.
I'm going to go to the library first chance and read My Sister's Keeper before I go see the movie.