Name a book that's better than the film

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For me its Good night Mr Tom and Little Women

Harry Potter

The book is always better than the film!

All of them.

Surely 99%.

The opposite to what asked but The Reader and Never Let Me Go were rare occasions where the film was as good as the book for me.

Harry Potter obviously. LOTR too. Anything vaguely sci-fi or fantasy really, my imagination works harder than the films budgets allow 😂

Most of them

I don't think I've seen a film yet that is better than the book.
I loved the books gone girl and girl on the train and was so disappointed in the films.

Flowers in the attic
Silver linings playbook
The lovely bones

The Stand - Stephen King

The hunger games

I think there was a glaring misjudgement in the film 'Never me go', which was that it was stated explicitly up front that the young people's organs were to be harvested. In the book, the reason they were all there in the house was only revealed very gradually. It's what made the book so much more psychologically interesting for me.

Did you mean this the other way round? Most books are better than the movie. I'm interested in movies better than the books tho

Sorry, 'Never let me go'.

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My holiday reading was the Agatha Raison series, all lightheated easy reading and the TV series portrays her as a completely different character, I just can't watch it
Gone is the middle aged women like Vera and a trendy blonde woman is in place, it gives it a totally different feel

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‘name a film that almost does the book justice’

Most novels are very difficult to adapt for the screen in any way that approximates their complexity — how do you do an unreliable narrator, for instance? I think the adaptations of literary works that translate best are short stories or novellas. I think Pat O’Connor’s film of A Month In the Country ( based on the JL Carr novella of the same name) is as good an adaptation as I can imagine — the brevity helps, as does the fact that the ‘now’ is the important part. All we know about the main characters’ pasts is that they’re both traumatised recent WWI veterans, one is gay and was imprisoned for it, one has a perennially unfaithful wife. Other than that, no backstory.

The only film I've watched that is better than the book (imo) is Schindler's List.

We need to talk about Kevin was really really well done. I don't think it was better than the book but it was definitely on par, most of the time the film is rubbish in comparison.

This.

It's never the other way about.

Agreed. You got to know them as humans and knew they were second class citizens but didn’t know why. Revealing it up front ruined that part although it was generally a good film

OMG I thought the film murdered Never Let Me Go. All the internal dialogue was missing, all the fine details lost. Just reduced to harvesting organs.

Hunger games
Harry Potter
Divergent

And Never Let Me Go is the only film I’ve ever been to where people upped and left before the end of the film, in disgust.

Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children. I could have cried at the film. It was awful

I agree that the book is always better than the film , if I’ve really enjoyed a book I don’t watch the film most of the time in case it ruins the book for me .