Books, hands down. Most people who answer "movie" probably haven't read the book. I challenge anyone to read Nabakov's Lolita and compare it to the movie, East of Eden with its good, but bastard and inadequate counterpart, Heart of Darkness to the Hollywood remake: Apocalypse Now.

The desire for instant gratification (a quick 2 hour movie) without having to think (without having to use you imagination) is destroying this country.

Definately books. Movies is something you can enjoy with other people and all of it's special effects etc. is great to enjoy, but give me a great book over a great movie any day.

You can always make your own interpretation of what a story should be during a book, but a movie is interpreted for you, thus ruining the whole experience.

Reading a book may take longer, but it definitely gives more entertainment than watching a movie.

I love to read a book that they then turn into a movie and not be disappointed in the end. Books are important for the details are all there that they couldn't fit into a two hour movie. In a movie you get the gist of the plot with some detail but not all. I prefer to read the book but I've had it go the other way too...reading the book after the movie. One I can remember was a mini-series made for TV which was awesome in it's detail and story line. But there was still a bit more in the book they just couldn't cover.

Books give more detail of the scene is and gives a picture in your head, with a movie it gives the least detail and doesn't make you think about it, you see it that's it!!

Book's make you imagine wat you think whatever you read, when you see a movie that came originally from a book you get usually dissapointed in what evverything looks like and they don't give great detail!

AND THEY SKIP GOOD PARTS SOMETIMES!

a book gives scope for u r own imagination but in a movie u have to go alng with it

When ever a read a book and see the movie I almost always get disappointed. Books are way better than movies.

i frankly say that movies are better, why?

'coz it

flows out your imagination, you need not sit and read and then think

it ends in 2 hours whereas book takes weeks together

..................................................

..........................

+ the the female actors almost all are hot

...................................................

.......................

...........................

it gives pleasure whereas books kill the time

................................................

...........................................

....................................

well, if we watch movies, we not only be entertained, but it gives us and evokes us with a variety of feelings. We can also understand the story line more easily... and definitely, it etches in our minds more deeply and we can recall it more vividly...