J.D.Staton answers “Is it as confusing and frustrating as the...”

Iris asked this question about Winter's Tale:

Is it as confusing and frustrating as the movie adaptation?

J.D.Staton It's impossible to take an intensely disjointed, convoluted, overly complex book of this size and try to shove it into a two hour movie. It takes over…moreIt's impossible to take an intensely disjointed, convoluted, overly complex book of this size and try to shove it into a two hour movie. It takes over 27 hours just to listen to it via audiobook. This book covers more than 100 years of NYC history (and far more parts of it than most people would EVER be interested in), multiple cultural groups/settings, multiple families, far too many characters to keep track of them all realistically (many are purely superfluous), and the storyline, along with its endless pieces, is very poorly tied together at the end. (less)

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