Essays: Reading a book vs. watching a movie 38 Articles

by Brittany Harden

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 bene...read more

by Liza Nuing

As an avid book-lover, I would say read the book first, then watch the movie. I love both mediums but have always enjoyed the book more than the movie. Examples include The Devil Wears Prada, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Lor...read more

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by Joanne Lee

The epidemic sweeping through today's "modern" generation can be summed up in three words: "Because it's work." These are the words that my 14 year old cousin blurted out when I asked him, "Why don't you read any boo...read more

by Diana Howard

Imagination, the exercise of our inner mind aided by a competent and creative author. That is what books offer those who will take the time to discover them. A writer endeavors to paint a picture as he sees it, and becau...read more

by Danette M. Scott

Essays: Reading a book versus watching a movie How often I've heard people say that the book was nothing like the movie. I suppose that watching films or videos that were based on a books seems much more entertaini...read more

by Lam Luu

Books and movies are two main choices of today entertainment and education. It is widely believed that books are better than movies for many reasons. However, I personally don't believe so. Comparing books and movies is li...read more

by Rachel Bird

Which do I prefer? Reading a book or watching a movie? The answer is not straight forward because there is clearly space for both pastimes in life, although I do believe that more people spend more time watching movies tha...read more

by John Sarkis

This isn't always possible or feasible. For example: how many people have seeing movies about Hercules, Apollo, Trojans...vs. how many people have actually read Homer or Virgil? If you decide you want to read Odyssey, Il...read more

by Ted Sherman

Wait just a minute! Are you trying to tell me there are still books out there? You know, the kind with paper, printing, covers and all that? I thought they stopped making those kind of books long ago, because no one was re...read more

by Donna Carroll Batton

Give me a good book over a movie any day. Don't get me wrong; I love a good movie too. Although I prefer to watch movies in a theater where it's dark enough to see the details, loud enough to hear the dialogue and isolat...read more

by Suzy Charnas

Reading a book far outweighs "watching the movie" in most cases. Books are made in a symbolic medium. They actively engage the reader's mind because the symbols (that is, the words themselves) need to be interpreted in l...read more

by Hassan Shafiq

This is something that has always been debated in my circle of friends and family. I think that both of these activities are related to each other because they both help us gain knowledge, but are also very different becau...read more

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by Jessica Manchester

Given the choice between reading a book and watching a movie I will choose reading a book time and time again. I enjoy a good story. Reading a book brings many different layers to the telling of a story. The subtleties of ...read more

by Rich Rivers

As a book lover since childhood I cannot exchange a book with anything else in this world, not even the best movie ever. Give me a movie CD and I'll set it aside until I have time to watch it. But give me a book and I'll...read more

by Keila Remon

Reading a Book or Watching a movie. I remember my favorite movie "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi". The director of the film, George Lucas chose to make the last 3 episodes first because it was the most interesting. I ...read more

by Robert Mckenna

The distractions and excuses are varied and vast, and are growing exponentially, when it come to reading books. The summer reading book list, was the bane of my existence during high school summers, when the order of the ...read more

by Anthony Megna

Do you prefer your own dreams or someone else's? How about your own fantasies or listening to someone else's? Reading stimulates the creative area of the mind to produce alternate realities. There is no substitute for r...read more

by Joy Rosette

It is very dissappointing to say that reading a book is a favorite past time. With the advent of TV, internet and movies reading a book is being replaced by subjective interpretation of others. Our Society today is driven...read more

by Stephanie Grohol

I love to read but I also love watching a good movie. If you love to read, then you are exercising your imagination by going into another world and reading about it. You can hold a book in your hands and use your imaginati...read more

by Sumantha Dutta

How many times have you said about a movie "it was good but I preferred the book"? The great thing about books is that they do not have a run time limit or budget for sets, because words are in control of everything. Cha...read more