Old readings

Yesterday, while I was waiting for my computer to start (it lasts ten or fifteen minutes in doing so), I started reading Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was my first time with this author, altought the story is very familiar to me. Long time ago, when I was 15 or so, I watched the Canadian series based upon the books, starring Megan Follows and Colleen Dewhurst. I loved the story just then and much later, I bought the complete series in VHS format.

But I never read the book, which was very strange for me. I am one of those geeks who have to read any story long before they watch it in TV or in the movies, specially those stories that are so loved by them. If I cannot read it before the movie, it is because I didn't know its existence, as happened when I discovered Chronicles of Narnia, or The Golden Compass or Inkheart, but I usually look for the book as soon as possible to "repair" the "situation".
Well, I didn't it with Anne of Green Gables. One of my excuses is simple. These books are children's books. They use to be simple (as I found out with Narnia), maybe too simple for me. I do not say I didn't like them. I enjoyed Narnia a lot and I didn't care because the movies were as simple as the books, and in some aspects, not so good. But, when I have been so in love with a movie or a series like the adaptation of Anne of Green Gables, I am afraid its magic will be lost as soon as I read the book and discover how different is from the movie or the TV show. And this happen a lot with stories for children (well, it happens as well with stories for grown ups too).

Anyway, I broke the curse and finally the book has fallen into my hands. I will keep in mind the natural differences between Literature and adaptations and will read without prejudices. It is a classic, after all. =)