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Eleanor Barkhorn - Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel.
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Eleanor Barkhorn is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where she edits the Entertainment channel. She is a former producer for the Food channel. Before coming to The Atlantic, she was a reporter at the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville, Mississippi. She graduated from Princeton University, where she majored in American literature and wrote her senior thesis about Oprah's Book Club. For her first two years out of college, she taught high school English with the Teach For America program.
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Do I Have to Read 'Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' Before I See the Movie?

By Eleanor Barkhorn

Sep 1 2011, 1:45 PM ET Comment

Moneyball. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Some of fall's most anticipated new movies are based on best-selling books. And in the run-up to the release of a big-deal film adaptation, the question inevitably arises: Do I have to read the book before I see the movie? A book like Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won Britain's prestigious Orange Prize in 2005 and is coming out as a movie in December, is a must-read. The fourth book in the Twilight series, however, might actually be more enjoyable on screen than in print.

Below, a round-up of the fall's highest-profile film adaptations, along with recommendations on whether you should read the books or not:


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