2015: A Year of Books or Movies?

I was totally going to do a list of my best books of 2015 by then I got to looking into books that actually came out in 2015 and realized I read no of them. Basically every book I personally was able to read this year didn’t come out in 2015 so I really can’t do that list so I am going to explain why I feel this year wasn’t a very strong year for books.

The major reason I believe this year wasn’t a very strong year for books was book to move adaptations. From some small research I did there were a minimum of about 40 or so book to move adaptations this year, and you would think with how many books get released each year, they would be fine, but I don’t think so. See I feel that movie adaptations are over shadowing their books because it isn’t that big of a time commitment, it’s easier, and they are about the same price.

One reason books are getting over shadowed by movie adaptations is because of time. Not a lot of people now a days have the 6-7 hours to sit and read a book, but they do have the 1 and a half to 2 hours to go sit in a movie theater and watch it.

Another reason I believe books are getting over shadowed by movie adaptations is because is because of laziness. Again no one really wants to spend 6-7 focused on a book picturing it in their minds. But people will gladly go and watch it, because then they really don’t have to think about anything.

Finally I believe that books are getting over shadowed by movie adaptations because of cost. A hard cover book now a days cost somewhere in the ball park of about 20-25$, (not including online deals, old books, stuff like that). A normal trip to the movies for one, about the same price. Including all of the factors earlier I believe this is why books are getting over shadowed by movie adaptations.

Now do I believe that movies will completely over shadow books? No of course not. There are too many people in the world that love reading books so books are always going to stay, but maybe they just won’t be as prominent as movies. But hey we won’t know until it happens.