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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1736218" data-attributes="member: 151">I'm with you.  I don't consider the movie to be better, per se, but a great compliment.  Supposedly, a reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer got fired when he reviewed the book, and didn't realize that Goldman was joking about being an original story from his native homeland.  But I consider it to be one of the best examples of successfully translating a book into a movie.  They complement each other (where did he really get that Holocaust Cloak?  Read the Book!)  The Hobbit goes without saying, and Bridge of Birds is just a wonderful, wonderful book.  I may go reread and it's sequels soon. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Concerning Tolkien, Shelley and Stoker:  I love the LotR movies more than the books, but let's remember that the books aren't novels, they're trying to recreate an nordic saga.  Tolkien knew how to write a novel...that's not what he was doing.  That doesn't mean I want to read them, but let's be fair.  Shelley was writing a gothic story in the early 1800s, and the rules for writing were different, then.  Stoker....well, OK, you got me on Stoker. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I would vote for Stephen King's 'It'.  While it foundered a little bit towards the end, I thought the miniseries was just better than the book, which lost it's way much sooner.   My biggest complaint about Jurassic Park (which was an awesome read), was that the lawyer was made into a comical 1-d bad guy, when in the book he was one of the most sympathetic good guys.  And he didn't die as part of a poop joke. :\</blockquote>

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