The Beauty of Literature

It seems that whenever a new movie comes out, there is a great book behind it. Have Hollywood's writers and directors run out of original ideas, or is it because it is a huge marketing scheme? Despite the reason, I am extremely tired of seeing timeless classics being massacred by the careless hands of movie directors. The fact is that no medium is superior to another, but the attempt of portraying a book by a movie, or any other medium for that matter, is a stab in the back, sloppy and disgraceful.
The satisfaction of finishing a book cannot be simulated by any other activity. …