"Red Dragon (the first book with Hannibal Lecter).
Aside from the stellar cast (Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Finnes), the pacing and visuals of the movie were fantastic. On top of that, seeing ‘The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun’ artwork and tattoo visually really cemented the film over book experience, from my perspective."
You could've said retire but you said die. What the f@#k, man.
Firstly, you're an @$$ with terrible taste, because the movies were incredible. However, anyone who thinks they're better than the books should just stick to reading trashy romance novels and leave the incredibly well-written material to those who have the capacity to appreciate them.
Speaking of Tolkien, The Hobbit franchise was NOT incredible. Those movies were truly awful and Peter Jackson showed himself to be a hack like Lucas, who's success only depended on listening to smarter people around him. Something he didn't do with the Hobbit, or King Kong. So if you really find his brand of garbage 'good' over the wholesome spirit Tolkien wrote the Hobbit in, it's almost certain you never read it, and are just another popcorn munching moron they were made for.
LOTR is a bad book, it's boring, there are bad folks song and sh#tty hobbit lore all the way deux ex machina is used many times, there are plot holes so huge even your mama would fall in....
The ending is so sh#tty it's not even an ending.
LOTR.... is 6 books, but I haven't read them since just before the first movie came out so my memory could fail me a bit...
The Hobit book was ok, but how the F did he manage to stretch that little book into those movies....
Couldn't even finnish Silmarillion...
You should stick to trashy romance novels
That's want you get for willfully developing the attention span of a gnat.
PS: I hate you with every fiber of my being.