The Book is Always Better

A great many books have be adapted to the silver screen but the process is not easy and the results are often sub par. 

In my experience, the movies always seem like shallow summaries of great books.

I can’t provide an informed opinion about a lot of these adaptations because, for many of them, I have not personally read the book and/or seen the movie - usually it’s one or the other.  So, I turned to the web to see what other people feel are the best and the worst movies based on a book. 

According to the New York Post, the movies that have best made the leap from paper to silver screen include:

Harry Potter;

The Shining;

The Lord of the Rings;

The Wizard of Oz;

The Princess Bride, 

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo;

The Perks of Being a Wallflower;

The Notebook.

The stories better left on paper - in other words, the bad movies based on books include:

Twilight;

The Great Gatsby;

The Time Traveler’s Wife;

Water for Elephants;

Eat, Pray, Love;

The Lovely Bones;

The Da Vinci Code.

Your thoughts?