Books Are Dead
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Books Are Dead... Books are a slowly dying art, giving way to movies and television. Within a few years of the novel coming out, the Harry Potter series had directors literally fighting over the rights to turn it into a film. Recently Lord of the Rings was converted into a film, the literary classic being reduced to three, 2 hour films which missed out several sequences. The novel, which has been analysed and read by millions world wide has suddenly been made available to audiences of all intellects, from the people who understand and are able to analyse the novel to the people who can barely understand the simplified version on the screen. With all this emphasis on the 'Big Screen', books seem to be on the way out, making way for ridiculously paid actors n actresses to flaunt about in front of a camera for a 2 hour film....

