And to elaborate somewhat further:
I never get more than half way through before I give up because everything that is described doesn't matter because I picture in my head what I saw in the movie.
I see what you mean, but that's not to take away from the pleasure gained from appreciating
how it's written. Literature, to me, is the "foregrounding of language" (as written in Jonathan Cutter's
A Short Introduction to Literature). And so our primary engagement with a work of Literature should be in the use of language to evoke, construct or enhance meaning. Cinema exists, before anything else, via the
image to inform meaning; and, since 1927, sound as well.
