My views...

Read "A Room with a View" by E.M.Forster and re-read it thrice already. Like it a lot. As is my wont, I tend to miss out a lot of details and subtle meanings when I read it the first time and every new reading gives me something to wonder at. Liked Freddy, George and Bartlett in that order. Watched the movie too but didn't like it much. The 'muddle' which runs throughout the book is somehow not conveyed well in the movie. And there are a lot of significant incidents in the novel which don't appear on the screen at all - like George calling out Lucy's name in that pond scene and Miss Bartlett's letter to Lucy etc. George, Lucy and Mr.Beebe all sound better in the book but the only exception is Maggie Smith . She was fantastic.
Coming to think of it, I've hardly liked any movie adaptation of a novel. "Pride and Prejudice" (BBC Series - I haven't seen the 2005 version) is as good as the novel probably because the length was 6 hours. It's a splendid work. Bram Stoker's Dracula is the worst I guess. I have seen three versions of it but each one made me somehow feel sorry for the book. The book is so splendid and all they had to do was following it faithfully. And for all that, none of them is half as scary as the book!