Anything by Tolkien

Shutter Island

The Reacher books

The Great Gatsby

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Jaws

Harry Potter series

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Virtually every book that was adapted into a television show or movie is better than the subsequent movie or television show.

Centennial by Michener.

Once you get past the first 150 pages about dinosaurs, it really hits its stride.

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I haven't read that one. I'll have to track it down. I just remember Robert Conrad chewing up the scenery in the TV version. Michener and Leon Uris wrote some epics back in the 70s and 80s. If you didn't like the book, it could be used a doorstop.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Better question is which movie is better than the book? Kinda wide open with Stephen King.

I think I read The Winds of War. Maybe I didn’t.

But I loved that mini-series.

The Caine Mutiny was a better film than book.

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The Ten Commandments…probably better than The Bible.

So let it be written….

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It's really not a fair comparison. You have so much more space to add detail and develop story and characters in a book than you do in a visual medium. However, I think you're spot on with King. The Shawshank Redemption comes to mind as a better movie than book.

"shawshank" and "stand by me" are the gold standard. "carrie".

then there's "misery", which is equally both a great movie and book.

Speaking of equal.

I think the TV version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with Alec Guinness is equally as good as the book.

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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was a wonderful book, one of the best I've read in many years, but the movie fell completely flat for me even with a very good cast.

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Where the Red Fern Grows

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I found the Millennium trilogy far better than the movies, either English or Swedish versions

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The Leftovers is a far better show than the book.

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Jaws

But I'm a visual reader and nothing on the screen ever compares to what I've imagined while I've read a book.

Then you have "Apt Pupil" in which the Anthrax song "Skeletons In the Closet" is superior to the novella.

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I don't read a lot of King but Salem's Lot was so much of a better book than either movie version.

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I've still not seen a movie version of Crime and Punishment that does Dostoyevsky justice. One of my favorite books of all time. I always thought that Brad Pitt would be able to play a really solid Raskolnikov, and I am not really a fan of his in general.

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Bonfire of the Vanities was a great book and horrible movie.

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All of the Horatio Hornblower series (Before A & E went Dog Bounty Hunter intensive) and While Master & Commander: Far Side of the World was good, the books are great.

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I see the light in you
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Could you smell my whole...
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I found it hilarious how King was furious that Kubrick made his book better.