What Was Better....The Book Or The Movie?

               I had never watched Daniel Day-Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans....that film being from 1992....until last evening. I remember the book being talked about in high school....James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales....but can't remember if I actually read it or any of those books back then. The movie came up in a conversation a few days ago....and a few hours after that conversation I booted it up on the computer to read....and then last night the movie.
                Everyone is going to have their own personal opinion on this. As for me....for example....Ian Fleming's James Bond books were so much better than the movies. As for The Last Of The Mohicans....I guess that it didn't help that the movie altered a lot of the book....but reading was a totally different experience....as so many more details are present in the author's actual story.
                If you were to look at the My Favorite Books link in my profile you would see Arthur W. Hunt's....The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World. I've mentioned that book a few times....the first time in December of 2008....which was at the very beginning of these posts. 
               God's primary design for communicating to man is in the written word. That little book is the greatest treasure in this entire world! He also speaks to us in the preached Word! Well we have the book....but the preached Word is vanishing! At least give my thoughts a test....Google up sometime a sermon from....a preacher from the past....or a preacher today who preaches like preachers from the past. Try this one....Martyn Lloyd-Jones....Follow Me....or....Seek Ye First. I listened to both of them two or three times in the last week. But I have to give you a warning....if you listen to too many of these men you may turn out like me! Here's another sermon to listen to....R.C. Sproul's very last sermon....you can Google it under that title....preached only a few weeks before he went on to be with his glorious Lord that he so marvelously exalted! I was in the car with a friend the other day....a sort of captive audience....and I played this sermon on our journey. His response after hearing it was immediate...."That was a great sermon!"