Musing Monday: Movie Tied-Ins?

This week, Rebecca asks:

What happens when you see a movie based on a book/story, especially one you’ve not read? Do you feel the need to track it down and read it?

I usually track down down the book, if the movie has a book tied-in to it. Regardless, after watching Harry Potter being kinda butchered by the movie production due to cutting all the good parts it has to offer, I kinda ended up watching the movies first before actually reading them.

People keeps telling me, what's the use of reading it, especially after watching the movies, I keep telling them the books are usually better than their movie counterparts.

And yes I'm one of those people who rather read the original book instead of the Movie tied-in versions as well. Though I ended up getting the tied-in version for the library o.0