You are on Reddit, so yes you probably do

Same, I started Berserk in the middle of the boat arc.

There is a comedy series on YouTube called If the emperor had a text to speech device that spends a fair bit of time poking fun at the worse parts of the Horus heresy. Basic premise is a way to talk with the emperor is found and he is just really pissed at what everyone has done since.

Even hitler thought it was shit if the forward is anything to go off

I would recommend it and maybe the second book. It did well enough to get a bad movie made

Inkheart

A rather fun fantasy story with a neat premise, someone can literally bring stories to life by reading them.

Won’t say it was amazing but was enjoyable. Sequels didn’t know what to do and eventually turned into characters going into stories they read, and it basically becomes discount Alice in wonderland from there imo.

Couple of reasons, but to address Harry Potter in particular, those films were the result of several directors and began before all the books were written so things were ...inconsistent to say the least, some points were skipped and left later directors on a bind. One example is that in the books the first time Harry kills someone is a big deal for him emotionally, but this would make no sense in the film since it had him literally kill someone in the first movie.

More generally, some things don’t translate. Good luck literally adapting what is just internal monologs, or keeping pacing the same as a book that relied on long passages of detailed descriptions, or any story that won’t fit in a ~100min 3 act structure.

It is really the children that make him the villain and is why he is written so well. Seeing it all we can understand his actions but he consciously destroys the lives of many innocent people just for his revenge.

There are a few cases where I’d say the film was far better but also had little to do with the book.

Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now: Whole setting change and the movie production was an absolute shit show, but I’d say the final product outdoes the book by a lot.

Who Framed Rodger Rabbit: Literally has nothing to do with the book, turned a weird book into a revolutionary film for animation.

As for one where they are more comparable,

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: I love them both, and I know Thompson didn’t care for the movie. But at the end of the day I think the film successful captured the district voice and tone the book has, and handled the ending a bit better than some of the more weird disjointed stuff at the end of the book.