Sahara the only movie made from a Clive Cussler book. They took so many liberties with it and changed so much from his original works that he refused to ever let another book of his be turned into a movie. His books have so much non stop action they keep you entertained from start to finish. My favorite are the Oregon Files books. Dirk Pitt series are good as well. 

OH I'll just name a couple: The Lord of The Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire, which you may know was Game of Thrones.

Lord of the rings because they left out some awesome parts. I dont like the interpretation on some parts either. Frodo was poorly casted too.

The Song of Ice and Fire was great in the first couple of seasons, when they really stuck to the books, then it started going downhill very very fast.

Man. There's so many.

Harry Potter, for sure.

N0S4R2

A Clockwork Orange

Fight Club (the book really is astounding)

Anything from Bret Easton Ellis fails to make the leap. American Psycho is a great movie, but the book is just so, different.

Sorry to get out of context about a book but I wanna make a comment about a movie called Max Payne which was a Video game and to me the game was better than the movie. Some of the newer movies are made from Vid games or Comic book now days too.

Lord of the flies and Animal farm are two that come to mind. The movies didn't do the book any justice. Hopefully there will be better attempts on bringing those books into live.

Most books are far better than the movie. Lord of the Rings, Angels and Demons, Girl on the Train, The Book Thief. I could go on and on..........and on lol. I think not only is @JeanRalphio right with what they said but also that reading a book opens our imagination to interpret how each character and the entire scenery looks and that will differ to what you or the next person will imagine it as.

The biography on Gezzy is definitely going to be better than the movie. Who could even play Gezzy except Gezzy himself? Who could make a non-contact sport physical and violent? Who could turn an event focused around cheering success and boozing into a popularity contest? Who else. As far as I know there is no book on Gezzy.

I think Jaws and The Silence of the Lambs did better onscreen.

I'll echo the sentiment that, in general, Stephen King books mostly dissolve to rubbish once a director gets their hands on one, but Stand By Me and The Shining are a couple of more notable exceptions. 🎃 

Everything the BBC touches gets butchered Solskjaer. The fact we Brits are forced to pay money to them just for owning a TV is a joke. I would love to cease paying towards that corrupt institution.

I think the better question would be what movie was better than the book?  As everyone knows most books have to many characters and details for them all to be put into a movie.   Many books really should be a mini-series to come close to what the author has written and tell the story.

I very much enjoyed all of the Lord of the ring books they were very detailed and told a great story the movies were great as well but I felt like they left so much out and were shorter than they should have been

I need to agree with Dynamite_Dan 

You can use your imagination while reading a book, like how the 

characters look likely etc and you really pay more attention about the details.

Well I dont read a lot infact nothing, and I prefer movies then reading books, and mostly I fall to sleep while reading books. So I would say movies are always better then books.

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