Why the book is better than the movie

The book was better than the movie. That's what people usually say.

Hardly anyone says: The movie was better than the book.

Why?

Because the world of the book is a world that you are in.

The world of any movie is simply a world that you see.

Better yet, the world of the movie is simply a report of what somebody else saw when they read the book.

Then they rigged up a movie to tell you about it so as to make money off of you.

Intuitively, you might think that the movie-world you see in full color, with every detail filled in and every character fleshed out by a "real" human being; you might think that such a movie-world would be better than the book-world only in your imagination.

But it doesn't seem to work that way.

Because you are actually in the book-world, as the book progresses, you actually have a hand in creating that world.

By not having a world in full detail as a pre-fabricated object for you (and everybody else) to see, you write the book along with the author as you go.

You write the book along with the Author as you go.

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Genesis 1.5 This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.

Exodus 24.7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient."

Psalm 40.7 ... "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

Revelation 20.12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.