1. You Get All The Background.
Usually the books are so much bigger. Even if they are a book that happens to just have about 100 or so pages the book is filled with so much more information in that 100 pages than there are in the actual movie. When you read the book you get all the information the author wanted you to know.
2. You Get A Special Bond.
I don't know about you but when I read I feel a sort of bond with the book. I feel like I am the character, and what happens to them is in fact happening to me. I feel the love, the pain, the heartache. I feel the emotions, the drama, the action that the character goes through. I sometimes would even mourn if someone died in the book. Example; The Fault In Our Stars, I cried (literally) the last 100 pages.
3.It Is What You Want It To Be.
Examples? "I saw the most beautiful girl in the whole world. She is more fathomable than I could ever imagine her to be possible. Her beautiful brown hair was blowing carelessly in the wind but that didn't bother her at all, she kept walking with her head held high laughing. Her laugh I know that I will always remember that laugh, it was as loud as a lion's roar but more elegant and just hearing it made me, as well as the people around us, laugh. Her eyes were breath-taking. Even from as far away as I am I could see so much of her soul in those hazel eyes, they had so much life and so much hope..." Now I'm not a boy, and I don't know if a boy would ever say these things but I am a girl and would hopefully want a guy to look at me this way. Even so, did you picture someone? I had pictured a girl standing in a field picking flowers with friends, you perhaps could have pictured her in New York, or France or anywhere else. You could have pictured her anywhere with just that paragraph until you got more details. Also the girl you see she could have freckles, a scar, a mole; anything you had envisioned her to have. That's the greatest thing about books- you have imagine whatever YOU want to imagine because it's something you read and within the reading world it's your own and it paints pictures in your head.
Yes movies are amazing, I agree. I love movies, I am a movie fanatic I watch anything and everything that I find interesting. I am not bashing on movies and the producers or directors. Not in the least bit, I am just saying that movies do not do the book, no the story, justice. Movies are somewhat on a time frame. Obviously you don't want to be in a movie theater watching the same movie for as long as you read the book. (If you happen to read fast then the pain would really start adding up about time wise.) Movies are usually around 2 hours long and if it's more the producers will half it into parts. So the timeframe has everyone rushing to tell the story. Hence the missing of the background, the background isn't important. Why? Because they believe people read the book, or if not then it won't matter because they tell enough of the story that it doesn't matter. WRONG!! Every piece matters; if you don't use every piece in a puzzle you can't see all of the picture. Same for movies. Also there isn't that much of a bond between the movie and the person. I read the Divergent series and when I read it, it was as if I was Beatrice and I was doing the action. I was calling the shots, I felt like I was a girl who could be intelligent, honest, selfless, brave, and I could break through the system and not be bound by someone's idea of me. I thought of all of that because I read the book. Don't get me wrong the movie is actually really good and the special effects is good, but I realized I wasn't the girl I thought I was compared to when I read the book. The book told me I was Beatrice the movie showed me I wasn't. Speaking of special effects; movies use all this money and time doing special effects for the movies. When I read there is no money into my imagination just time and reading. I just read the words that magically flow from the page and once they enter my mind they become their own world and I don't need a screen to see what you could at a theater. When I read I picture things so differently than how they come out at the movies. Once it flows off the page it is in my mind forever and it is in it's on place as if it's a memory as if it really happened to me. It's like I can actually see the dinosaur that is being described, or the gorgeous ball gown and when the girl goes to the magical ball I can see the room she is in with all the girls dressed up as gorgeous as her and I can see the happiness in that page. The girl surrounded by people that just fill the noise, and she thinks that they don't matter but without them there the room would be empty and not as extravagant as it is. I can actually feel like I am there in my own world just by reading it. I picture a girl taller, or shorter, less awkward, or more independent. That's the best thing about reading. That's why I love reading. I can read it and I can see someone who is just like me, or someone who is totally opposite from me and someone else who read it read it in a way that I didn't and interpreted differently than I did and imagined a girl like them, or a girl differently. I love reading because it lets' me know that there are people who still have an imaginative mind like me. Who still believe that there could be a dragon and Princess but this story this Princess saves herself and finds herself and a boy isn't even in the story. Or the boy is found in trouble and is sentenced to go to school at a Dance place and he finds out he loves dance. Or art and instead of becoming a Doctor like his dad said he becomes an artist and finds himself and his self-worth and his love of art that way. Books, reading they tell me a story and I can imagine with it and think of a future the story can hold. I love reading because I can be a million different people and all I have to do is open a book and read.
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads only lives one." -George Martin
