This thread discusses the Content article: Just Say No to Comparing Books and Movies

Liz, Couldn't agree more! There's no way to adequately capture the experience of a book on screen, given how personal that experience necessarily is. They're two separate media, and even when they work from the same source material, they're best evaluated individually.

Even where the author is closely involved in the screen adaptation (Russell Banks' work with Atom Egoyan's adaptation of his novel The Sweet Hereafter), it is a different vision altogether. In this particular case, I loved the novel and the film, but for slightly different reasons. Comparing the two seems not only unfair, but unnecessarily diminishing of the experience of either one.

In other words ... great post, pal!