XPost: rec.arts.movies.current-films   
   From: pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu   
      
   Russell Watson  writes:   
      
   > On 10/1/2015 5:12 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Well, according to that review the movie leaves out a lot of the book   
   >> ... as usual in Hollyweird "adaptations".   
   >   
   > Yes, a certain amount of streamlining of plots is typical. I like to   
   > refer to screen treatments as "Based on the 'Reader's Digest Condensed   
   > Books' version of the novel.   
      
   That could work to this story's advantage.  After a while I felt like   
   the book's author was afraid it would be too short, so he started   
   padding it with new problems to stretch it out.  I enjoyed reading it,   
   but did come away thinking it would have been better as a novella.   
      
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