The book is a very flat polemic about war with extremely dull characters. Thankfully the movie abandons all the self-serious pretension and replaces it with satire and manages to ask some interesting questions about the nature of war. The best parts of it play like Fox News and the DVD commentary where the director admits he never read the book because it depressed him.

We need a way to disagree, I don't feel some of these belong.

Mansfield Park needs to be #1 on this list. That director achieved miracles! Miracles, I say, to make me care at all about Fanny Price!

This film, starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins outdid the Forster book. I loved the film and then read the book and was sadly disappointed. As A Passage to India was also a great film (as was A room with a view) I must conclude that EMF was better on screen than in print. Do you agree?

I loved both the book and film of Remains so I can't really say that the movie is better. But I must say that the film definitely captured the sense of loss and missed opportunity that the book had. These are painful, English and tortured. It shows the buttoned up English at their best (or worst!)...

While nothing can match this great book, the BBC's recent 'soap opera' treatment of Bleak House was epic and marvellous.... I loved every minute. It shows that some classics do translate well and Dickens would have definitely written for TV! Gillian Anderson was a star and shows that Hollywood stars can transfer if they are adaptable enough....

I would also advocate adding Mansfield Park. This is the weakest of Austen's books, but the film's screenplay digs deep into the historical framework of the period to hint at possible dark secrets that might have entered into the family's business dealings, as well as exploring the turbulent emotions of characters dealing with intense social mores. A riveting film made of a rather dull book (and I'm a huge fan of the other Austen books).

Some of these books are considered masterpieces. Why are they here? I agree with Andrea, we need a way to disagree. This is just ridiculous.

Ok, whoever said that The World According to Garp's movie was better than the book is clearly an idiot.

I'm serious, if you thought the movie was better, it was because you get confused easily. And you are a moron.

I cant believe Dune is on here! I for one lOVED the film (most people dont), but the book is still amazingly better (even if I havent read the whole thing yet)

Please add The Princess Diaries. The movie was charming, the book bitter and depressing.

I have to say, I'm really disappointed in this list. There are a very few exceptions to the rule "The Book is Always Better than the Movie" and I was only able to find 5 books on this list of 165 choices that I agreed with.

Movies are as different from the books they are based on as a song or a painting based on a book would be. What we are talking about is not a comparison of apples and apples. But, when talking about unlike things, we can still make comparisons of a kind: was the movie (as a movie, by movie standards, compared to other movies), more enjoyable than the book (as a book, by book standards compared to other books). And since the choices are inevitably subjective, and the principle democratic, the only "wrong" books on this list would be ones that have not, in fact, been made into movies.

Some amazing choices here -- Prince Caspian? City of Ember? Two of the worst films I've seen this year, both completely undermining and ruining everything about the novels that made them good. Well, I guess we're all looking for something different....not too many examples that I actually agree with here, it's awfully rare that a film, especially a mainstream, modern big-budget Hollywood film, can approach the complexity or depth of even the average decent novel.

I can not figure out why you would think the movie for Gone With The Wind was better then the book. There's just no way that it was!

I protest and am highly disgruntled over Romeo & Juliet and Anne of Green Gables being on this list.

Most of the time I see movies adapted from books as a cliff notes version for people who don't really like to read. On rare occasions the movie manages to capture everything the book gives, but most of the time due to time constraints and the way film works there is just no way to include everything. In my world, on even rarer occasions, the movie manages to be better than the book. I agree with four of this list's choices. I wonder if the people who have propelled "The Princess Bride" to the top of this list have actually read the book? It provides the equivalent of a whole DVD extra with of back story on all the main characters. And has the person who made this list actually read all these books? Are they a movie person in Hollywood? What gives? That being said, I like the idea of this list, if not the majority of the content.

I can't believe tha Mansfield Park is in the list! I know that people may not think the same I do , but I really hated the movie ...it was like it destroy the book! I think the same oh Twilight , I mean , the book was so much better than the movie ! It's not just my opinion , ask and a lot of people will say the same .And with Dracula and Harry Potter 5 ... I think the movie was nice , but I definitly prefer the book.
There are some books about the movies that I didn't even know they exist.Like V of vendetta , Chocolat , Forrest Gump and Devil wears Prada , so then about those I can't say anithing , because don't know them.

Too funny. As if huh?!

These lists are all really silly, but I think this may be the silliest one :)

Cold Mountain - the book was awesome! One of the best I have ever read. The movie couldn't TOUCH it! Not that the movie was bad, it was just a very long and detailed book - no way to convey all that in a movie.

The Last of the Mohicans!?! Whaaaaaat? Seriously, did you actually read the book? CAN you read?

In my opinion, the movie should not even be graced with the title of the book.

This list is certainly ridiculous. I had to stretch to find six. And the Princess Bride at the top? I doubt most of these voters have read the book. It's clever and charming and utterly different from the movie, and it's certainly wonderful in its own right.

To Kill A Mockingbird? Blasphemy!!!