Word & Film explored "the (sometimes) heated subject" of casting book-to-film adaptations, noting that books allow readers "the pleasure of generating a narrative's world themselves. Reading thus becomes a very personal experience. If, as our colleague Christine Spines suggests, beloved authors can almost be romantic objects of our affection, they requite our longstanding love with their work. We develop emotional attachment to these books; their characters, stories, and very words are our intimate friends.... Any adaptation fixes a single interpretation into permanence, reducing our perfect image--what was fluid and gorgeously vivid in our own minds--to dust."