No offense to film makers, and movie buffs (buff, what a weird word!), but I feel like in most cases, a book is usually better than its screen adaptation. Not in all cases, but possibly most.
Why?
Books take much longer to read than to sit passively watching a movie, thus a longer time investment promoting a sense of shared space between the reader, and the book, or novel's world, is achieved.
Books allow you to get inside of the character's head, whereas that is not as easy to convey on the big screen.
Readers ARE casting directors. A reader casts the characters via imagination, and if the character on the screen is not at all how the reader had imagined him/her, than the reader will feel as if the movie is inauthentic due to preconceived notions.
In general I enjoyed The Reader, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Towelhead, Thank You for Smoking, Bridget Jones Diary, Atonement, The Bone Collector, The Outsiders, Tuck Everlasting, and many other movies more in their book vs. movie edition, with the possible exception of Charlie, and the Chocolate Factory.
Maybe I'm pigheaded.
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