My father has always insisted that people only say “the book was better than the movie” because they read the book first. In his opinion, if you read the book first, then you spend the movie missing all the characters and scenes they’ve had to cut for time. However, if you’d watched the movie first, then while you reading the book you’d find yourself annoyed by all the superfluous material that’s clearly not needed since it didn’t make the film version. Whether my father’s theory […]