Book vs. Film

My first post i want to write about has to be The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. I read the book not too long ago and fell in love with the story, the characters and Sparks' writing style. I've just recently read that someone has watched the film and does not want to read the book as she doesn't believe it will be as good. I think this is such a bad idea to watch any film first if you ever did or do plan on reading the book. The book is always so much better, i've found. and the film often disappoints, however if people do watch the film first then when they read the book they find it to be too descriptive and they just want to read about the action they have seen in the film. I cried so much at the book but at the end of it i had hope and i was so thankful for my family and boyfriend after reading it. It had such a big impact on my life.
I had the DVD in front of me but was very doubtful to watch it in case it was as sad as the book, however i did watch it and found Allie (Rachael McAdams) to be totally not what i expected of her as she seemed loud and obnoxious at times. The end scene i probably cried just as much as the book but because i knew what was going to happen, when you read the end of the book we probably all have a different scene in our heads and i was actually disappointed with the ending on the film as i thought it would have transcended back to when they were young, as in a memory.
Basically my message here is to always read a book first if there is a film version out that you wish to see, and if you want to chance watching the film after you've read it, you can always buy the DVD version.

xx