I had to ctrl+F to find this one, but holy shit. This isn’t a case of the movie being great, and the book being decent or so-so – this book is downright terrible.
I walked away from reading this one feeling angry that someone could write such a lousy novel and then successfully option it and see it turned into a masterpiece film of the same name. I’ve read interviews w/ the author though, and he seems like a nice guy, so that resentment was tempered a bit.
On a side note, I haven’t seen Sideways mentioned here so I’ll add it. The book is actually a good read (other than the bad first chapter that the movie thankfully skips past), but the movie is superior.
I had to ctrl+F to find this one, but holy shit. This isn’t a case of the movie being great, and the book being decent or so-so – this book is downright terrible.
I walked away from reading this one feeling angry that someone could write such a lousy novel and then successfully option it and see it turned into a masterpiece film of the same name. I’ve read interviews w/ the author though, and he seems like a nice guy, so that resentment was tempered a bit.
On a side note, I haven’t seen Sideways mentioned here so I’ll add it. The book is actually a good read (other than the bad first chapter that the movie thankfully skips past), but the movie is superior.