Cecily’s Comments (group member since Dec 14, 2012)

Cecily’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

Alex wrote: "Tanya wrote: "...I was reading an article on authors who hated the movie versions of their books the other day, and Winston Groom hated the adaptation so much, he started the sequel with the line 'don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story."

In a (slightly) similar way, Cervantes wrote part 2 of Don Quixote in response to an unofficial sequel. In a pre-post-modern(!) twist, the characters refer and react to aspects of the unofficial book, in particular the consequences of the fame it has brought them!

Angie wrote: "Oh! I totally forgot! The Road was a great (and depressing) book and movie. Almost completely identical to eachother."

A very faithful adaptation, but although I thought they were both very bleak, I saw hope and beauty that prevented either from being depressing.

I read it when it first came out in 2004, and have just reread it in advance of the film being release in the UK next month. Even better on a reread. My review is here: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/....

The book is subtler (some of the exposition in the film is rather heavy-handed), but the film is visually stunning, and it was often hard to believe the tiger was "only" CGI.