Reply #16: depends on the book, depends on the movie

[pitohui]

someone mentioned "do androids dream of electric sheep?" which i consider to be one of dick's weakest novels, yet it made a fine movie, "bladerunner"

many books are involving because of what's going on inside the character's head, this is why stephen king movies are often so trivial compared to reading the novels or stories, (yes, i'm aware of the exceptions like "misery"), so the movie is simply a different experience, and in the case of king, there are zillions of horror and suspense tales out there, the only thing that makes him special is the stream of consciousness and the crazy thoughts he captures in people's heads, so it's rare for movies to equal the book, just look at superior reads like "cujo" and "pet semetary" and the resulting shitty movies that you've forgotten before you hit rewind

another example would be carl hiassen (spelling?), his books are all about the speed of action and his sense of humor, but his humor is v. over the top and only works well because it's zipping by so fast, so a fun book like "strip tease" becomes an embarrassingly bad movie of the same name when everything is put in front of you visually and you have time to think, this is really kinda stoopit