When is the book better than the movie?

Almost always it seems. Part of the problem is that Hollywood destroys book plots when they attempt to transfer them to the silver screen. I, Robot and the Bourne series of films are examples. The first turned Asimov’s cerebral study of human-robot relations, carried to its pinnacle in Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, into a futuristic action film and vehicle for Will Smith that had nothing to do with the original stories. Same for the Bourne trilogy, where all the memory lapses were resolve...