The book does more than entertain, though, and it does important work about knowledge of the heart and knowledge of the world that's work we have to take seriously. A book can do the work that religion used to do for us or that philosophy does, but a movie can't. A movie can't fire your imagination the way that words can. And imagination is the act of creation. It's the act of God in a human mind.
Movies are two-dimensional that way.
In fact, I know that I am enjoying a movie when I find myself thinking, I want to read this script. On the web Salon Magazine review of Little Miss Strange . Oregon Live Bookspy interview with Joanna Rose .