a movie. they’re doing the work for you that you could be doing for yourself in a book, right? you could read the story in a book and you can picture it, and there’s a real difference to the experience. there’s a real freedom to being able to picture the characters exactly as you want when you’re hearing a story, but there’s a real ease to watching a movie and just letting the images stream right in, and somebody else already figured out what it all looks like.
people who say the book was better than the movie say that about their favorite books, not all books. otherwise the library would 