When it comes to picking between watching the movie and reading a book I say movie all the way. Right off hand I must sound like an uneducated schmuck for making such a decision, but know I am completely aware of the benefits of curling up with a good book. While reading you get to paint your own pictures and increase your vocabulary, not to mention it's quiet and portable. However, there are many more benefits, in my own personal opinion of course, to watching the movie.

Today's world is a fast one. Everyone is in a rush to get things done. Think of your average business executive, he goes to work from seven to five, comes home and eats, spends time with the kids, showers, gets ready for bed, sleeps then wakes up and does it again. When is there time for entertainment? Yes, he could just read a small portion of a book before bed each night for a year but there is a better way. You have time for a movie you can watch it with the kids. You can eat dinner while you watch. You can give that hard working brain of yours a rest from the day that is steadily coming to an end. Also, consider this, While reading a book the author describes in vivid detail the way a room looks, the way a sound sounds, the way something feels. While in a movie it only takes seconds for you to clearly see exactly what the book describes.

For example, picture this, A tree stood worn from the wild. It was full of moisture and damp from the tropic rain. Leaves were bitten and spotted with dew. small insects kept to their niches. The bark was broken and peeling and the tree said nothing. Now, during a movie in the time it takes for this to be read the tree worn from the wild has been seen already and the story can go on, instead of me having to put the image together in my head it is already put together. Most people imagine the same things when they hear the same things. When You read 'he saw a red cocker spaniel.' What do you see? would it by any chance be a red cocker spaniel. I see that too. A movie is the director's interpretation of the story, but I would imagine it may be similar to mine, not the same, but similar.

While it may seem I have only given you one reason to love the movie more than the book it has actually been many reasons. I understand if may two-sense did nothing for you and you enjoy the book as opposed to the movie, but it is about what entertains and what you adore. I, like the business executive, am a slave to the time and just find the movie more convenient I am in no way against the reading of books and if I were a little more patient and didn't love the movies so much I would be a bibliomaniac.

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