The reading (Books without pages novels without endings) led me to look at the debate of book Vs. film.  Both are a form by which people can receive/be told a story and in my opinion one is not better than the other.  I think perhaps a film is  a more relaxed way to receive a story, we are given what the characters look and sound like, along with setting and environment.  Books on the other hand, are defiantly a longer and personal way or receiving a story.  Readers are left to imagine everything that a film will show you thus allowing for more hypertext.

The reading uses the same example which I am also going to use – that of my favourite novel Pride and Prejudice.  For me the film or adaptation from book to screen which I like most is directed by Joe Wright, staring Keira Knightley.  For me it captures the characters of Mr and Mrs Bennet the way that I had always pictured they would be, however like many films based on Austen novels it lacks her wit and insight into human behaviour.  I think that it will always be hard for a film to convey these things about Austen without using a narrator however this would not reflect the subtle ways in which Austen includes ‘her own voice’ in her writings.  In terms of book to film adaptations once you have seen the film it is hard to go back and read the book without hearing the voices and seeing the faces that are used in the film, something that I take as a negative impact that film has had on books.