>The UPS guy was just by to deliver a copy of "Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney, which I ordered on a whim this week to reread. ($2.68 used from Amazon -- can't beat it with a stick). The cover photo is of Michael J. Fox in the movie version, which was in my opinion dreck. It got me thinking it might be a fun, non-combative thread to list books that were better than the movies made from them, and the other way around.
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>"Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney -- book better
>"The Godfather" by Mario Puzo -- movie better

Cormac McCarthy:

- "All the Pretty Horses" - book vastly superior
- "The Road" - movie as good as the book
- "No Country for Old Men" - I haven't read the book, but the movie was so good I'd be judging the book on its failures to adhere to the movie

IME most movies are inferior to the books e.g. "Cold Mountain".

OTOH some high-quality animated features are so creative it's hard to imagine them as a book:

- "How to Train Your Dragon"
- "Despicable Me"