Michael J. Sullivan hosts a Q&A discussion

What other fantasy books do you think have worked out well or not so well as movies?

When I first saw the Lord of the Rings I was a bit miffed because so many things that I wanted were cut and worse new things were added like changing who carries Frodo to the elves. Now in retrospect I have to say they were really well done.

The Harry Potter books were also very well executed as movies, although I like the earlier ones that had a much lighter feel than the darkness that crept in both from content and director vision toward the latter ones.

I'm anticipating good things for the Hobbit.

I'm not a huge fan of Game of Thrones as a book (because I didn't connect with or care about any of the characters) but I think the production values for the series has been excellent. I still don't like the characters, but I do enjoy watching it..especially for the production values.

They are actually making THREE movies out of the Hobbit! I do find that interesting as well as it is such a shorter work (and should fit well in one movie) to think that there will be three is interesting.

There is a lot of heat for doing it as three, I'm going to reserve my opinions until I see it.

I've never read Eragon...I saw the movie and didn't like it much but I heard a lot of it had to do with it not being a good representation of the book. I think a lot of people who are Eragon fans had similar reactions to yours.