>>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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>>Two starters --
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>>"Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney -- book better
>>"The Godfather" by Mario Puzo -- movie better
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>Cormac McCarthy:
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>- "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
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>IME most movies are inferior to the books e.g. "Cold Mountain".
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>OTOH some high-quality animated features are so creative it's hard to imagine them as a book:
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>- "How to Train Your Dragon"
>- "Despicable Me"

Nodding my head most of the way. "No Country for Old Men" was a knock your socks off good book, also a very good movie. I like about every movie the Coen brothers have made. "Raising Arizona" may not be their best (probably isn't) but it hit all of my pleasure spots. I rewatch it every couple of years.