Poll

These were rare exceptions I thought the movie/tv show was better than the movie:

Breaking Dawn: Part Two - the movie held more suspense whereas the book was anticlimactic

A Thousand Tomorrows - the tv show had more depth, details, character growth, and faith content than the book did

Allegiant - even though part two was never made, I feel like Four was a better character in the movie than the book. He came off as a whiny many child in the book where he still maintained his fighter personality in the film

For some reason, I do find it more enjoyable to read the books once I've seen the movies. Of course, it depends on the specific book and movie, but for example, when I was reading "The Help," "A Little Princess," "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," etc, I found it to be SO fun imagining the movie in my head.

Especially with classics, I just feel like the different movie and book version are equal. One isn't better than the other. For example, I've heard that, in the Fellowship of the Ring, it takes 200 pages for Frodo and Sam to get out of the Shire (someone correct me if I'm wrong), whereas in the movie, it takes 20 minutes (give or take). I think that if you find the right adapted version of a book, you'll find that the movie does a good job at making the book easier to understand, flowing smoothly, and shortening it a great deal!

I feel like the book will always be better, but there’s always going to be pros and cons for both.

I don't want to waste my time so I watch the movie first and if I like it I read the book!

I feel like (now this might be a crime) the movie A Walk to Remember was better at least in the sense of romance development.

I think that the book is usually better than the movie. But there have been times when I really liked a movie, then went to check out the book--and found it unreadable.

Most of the time though, the book explains things that the movie did not. Movies are typically far more expensive and labor intensive to produce than books. A single line in a book (or its corresponding screenplay) could take days, sometimes weeks to film if the line has complex parts and a lot of different actions inside it. Movies really can't show (and tell) everything a book can, so the experience of the book tends to seem more comprehensive to me.

I think it depends! Because I personally think that the Narnia movies were just as good as the books!

I read Prince Caspian after I watched the movie and it honestly made me enjoy it more!!!