Reading a Book or Watching Its Adaptation: Which Is Better?/Are books better than films?/reading is better than its adaptations

[Spirit-Soul-Body]

LOL...movies!! Believe me i enjoyed a lot but

Hah .... specially adaptations....I see many failed to convey same emotions there ...definitely its completely different way of expressing..when each reader use infinite amount of imagination to grasp what is conveyed while movies/videos limit their way expressing to specific shown ..Colors, depth, facial expression etc its limiting hue..to happenings..

So, read is always better than its adaptation to any audio/visual


what do you say???
I would like to hear your views.

[Lucas]

But there are movies which are better than their adaptation though few.For example Godfather was considered trash but movie was well received and I think because of movie the book too got to much traction not vice versa. Other movie that comes to mind is Jaws

[Spirit-Soul-Body]

hmm!! "the Godfather" or "Jaws" haven't read any books but have seen movies.

the godfather series had wide acclaim by critics but popular with audience.

however I can think that if creation is bad than it goes down in comparison with anyside.

whether its book or movie...if its made bad it reflects bad.

[Chandana Sruthi]

Mind can imagine many things, I mostly read books and imagine how ever i want. Then i sit and watch movie as a homework (just kidding) to know how many pages they used and how much my imagination is lot correct.

i feel books are better than film adaptions, but i need film adaption as well .
:D

[R.S.]

In almost every case it depends on which one I do first :-).