I am a writer of fiction in both English and Spanish. I live in Southern California and working on my third novel.
I love to tell complex stories in as simple a process as possible, leaving out too much description that can tune out readers. It is important to be able to relate and imagine in your own way. I am sure that my experience reading a classic like The Great Gatsby is different than yours, just because of what is not said between the lines.
Movies tend to improve or destroy books, and sometimes color our experience so much that we can only read the books with those actors in mind, I am not against Movies, just bad movies. (Think how good the Harry Potter movies are and how bad Dune was!)