Novel versus Film

Snuggle down with a novel

Within the pages a treat.

Story, characters, emotions,

Another world to retreat.

Watch a film, a giant screen

Be engulfed in the tale unfolding.

Actors in pain, sorrow, despair,

Laughing, dancing. You, beholding.

Varied settings, city, town,

Countryside or outer space,

Dystopian, utopian, future, past

Destruction of the human race.

Films, books are enjoyable

But not quite on a par.

You are immersed in both,

But the film has a star.

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