Stories are wonderful entertainment; in my view, books tell the best stories.
Not everyone agrees.
“Movies have always been better than books for me,” Hannah Ross, sophomore, said. “I think I watch at least one movie a week. I’d like to read books more often than I actually do, but I only read them maybe three to four times a year. I just never have time.”
“Personally, I like movies better,” Constance White, sophomore, said. “I like them more because it gives me imagery and allows me to understand a story better than just reading words off of a page.”
“I think books are better than movies,” Annabeth Shadrick, sophomore, said. “They portray stories better than movies do because you can have more details. People are more willing to read a really long book than watch a really long movie with a lot of unnecessary detail,” she said.
Students criticized both books and movies.
“I don’t like how books have become a way for people to publish inappropriate content that kids who are too young end up reading,” Shadrick said. “It undermines books that are actually well-written by passionate authors.”
“I dislike that sometimes I skip over parts [of a book] by accident, and then I get to another part where it refers to the part I skipped,” Ross said. “I get very confused.”
Ross dislikes movies. “I don’t like it when movies don’t match up to the book that it’s based on. I also don’t like how the characters can be different from
what I imagined.”
White did not have any criticisms for movies, but she had a mixed opinion on books. “I have a hard time imagining a story without images,” she said. “I’m also easily distracted, and I can’t focus well when reading. However, there are many stories that don’t get made into movies; therefore, there’s more content.”
