I LOVE Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi action movie Children of Men. I’ve watched maybe six times and every time, the ending always almost brings me to tears. So when I learned it was adapted from P.D. James’ book of the same name, it was a no-brainer deciding what my next book would be.
After finishing the book, it wasn’t difficult to reach to the conclusion that I enjoyed the movie better.
While James’ book gives a more in-depth look at how human infertility and humanity’s slow death march towards extinction affects the sexual dynamic between men and women and almost demented ways humans try to cope with a world without children or a race of dead men walking, I feel the book dedicates WAY too much time describing the failing of human civilization and the Regrets and guilt of Theo Faron. It’s not even until after 2/3 through the book where it feels like the plot and story are properly paced and stuff of consequence actually begin to happen.
The film’s adaptation by, comparison, feels consistent in its pacing and the world building and woe-is-mes of Theo feel more compact a take up less of the audience’s time.
What books do you feel were worse than its film adaptation and why?
Stephen King’s It
I think everyone knows about a certain part in the book by now…
The new movies with Skarsgard are phenomenal. But the audiobook for IT is magnificent. Steven Weber’s performance is my favorite audiobook performance of all time. That part you mention in the book is weird but it’s like 30 pages from the end of a 1000+ page book and was much shorter than I was anticipating. I enjoyed the hell out of the book minus the child gangbang.
I know Stephen King blames that on the alcohol snd cocaine, but Jesus Christ, how out of it do you have to be to do that? Especially since you have the adult characters right there! Just do it with them!