I like both. I read all kinds of books. My favorite kind of books are art books. I like reading the histories of artists and their works. Art is a very interesting subject. I do re-read books and watch movies over and over.
Examples: 1. I have this book on The History of Modern Art. It has lots of pages---at least 800 and it's a large book. I read parts of it here and there. 2. Movies: I bought a bunch of new movies. I've seen "The Monuments' Men" several times. I especially like the musicals, like "My Fair Lady" and "Chicago".
Interesting choices that say a lot about you, Marguerite. I'd love to have that interest in art but I'm a Philistine. I guess I know what the average person knows but that's not a lot.
Chicago and My Fair Lady? Great choices. I saw MFL on stage. Great experience. We've also played through it any number of times since.
"Movies" ... as nearly all my reading is for educational purposes, not pleasure. "Comedy" is my favorite genre and the farther away from that genre the movie goes, the less I apt I am to watch it.
Comedy is good but it's very individual, and it comes from some unlikely sources. We accidentally (we'd been watcing a video and left the TV on when it finished) tuned in to some kind of comedy contest one night. The first guy was hilarious and we watched the rest of the program because of him. The man who followed him (the final contestant) was dreadful. We were surprised to learn that the first man was a politician and the second a professional comedian. There was a gulf between them.
Indeed! Comedy is very subjective and I don't like all kinds of comedy either. Sometimes it's hard for me to describe the line between acceptable and not ... for example: Slapstick comedy ... I dislike more of it than I like and yet I am/was a HUGE fan of Jerry Lewis. Another style of comedy that I don't find funny is a "whiner." Like Ross Geller (a character played by David Schwimmer on the sitcom "Friends").
I love to read and I've read Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk several times, as a child I read Heidi so many times the book was falling apart and it was my goal to live on a mountain and marry a goatherd. I like movies too but I'd find it difficult to choose one as a favourite. Some comedy is OK, I'm watching Frasier right now even though I've watched the same episodes for years but I find most of it just not funny maybe it's my weird sense of humour.
As we used to say in Oz when I was growing up, "My colonial oath!" Me too Karen. I could live without TV or movies but I'd go nuts without my books. Hmm... I wouldn't like to lose the Internet, either.
I enjoy movies, but prefer reading. Books give you the backstory and the charcter's thoughts, fleshing out the story in a way no film can do. I read pretty much anything other than romance. I often reread books and watch movies I have seen before.
The other big thing about books is that the reader enters into the creative process. From the descriptions given yoiu create your own characters, locations, situations, tensions, and yes, even romance. With movies you get what the director and actors imagine.
I watched less than half an hour of The Hunt for Red October before turning it off. The on-screen characters just didn't measure up to those in the book.
Marguerite, the Beloved 