I'm more a Novel > Film guy too. It's not that I don't have time. It's just that I'm lazy with that specific book. I've seen the film (even the Director's cut -.-') and I have one reaaally old edition where the full trilogy is in 1 book, so it's to heavy too take it anywhere. I've read those two 20th century novels from Ken Follet not too long ago,
And, about the Manga > Anime, it depends. Series like NuraMago look 1000% more awesome in manga because the drawing is amazing. In others I don't care.
Naruto is Games > Manga > Anime though. It's the same crap, but the games look awesome, the dialogues are shorter and things don't look like shit in motion xD.