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By Orson Scott Card. fyi: Movie doesn’t hold a candle to the book 🤷🏼‍♂️
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This book nailed the “underdog wimp gets drafted to space battle school and gets revenge on the bullies” storyline before it was cool.
Feb 9, 2024

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Sometimes the book is better. I watched The Goldfinch movie and, honestly, it wasn’t great. I later read the book, and to this day it’s one of my favourites. Sometimes the movie is better. Didn’t even finish reading Call Me By Your Name, but the movie was decent. Sometimes both are great. Fight Club!! My point is that either way it’s difficult to judge something fairly unless you have read the book and watched the film.
Jul 15, 2024
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Way better than the movie
Mar 25, 2024
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I read this one a few weeks ago, but wanted to wait until I saw the movie before diving into my thoughts. Both start extremely similar, down to some exact word-for-word scenes, and the plot points are all the same, but the movie takes some creative license to show what’s going on for the main characters mentally that the book doesn't. This works in favor for both the book and movie. In the book's case you're left guessing, confused, and trying to pick apart every tiny detail til the very end. The author is continuously sneaking small details/hints past you without raising alarm, and at the end I found myself looking back to see a whole different story. This isn't to say I didn't see the twist coming, but it was done in a way that left plenty of good stuff to pick apart after you‘ve finished.
Oct 2, 2020

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