I consider myself a writer…non published but nonetheless a writer. I recall my sister pointing out this book to me and I read the first page and I was hooked. However it wasn’t until later that I actually purchased the book as I had just been hired as a first year teacher and reading in my spare time was for creating lesson plans and keeping my head above water.
So towards the end of my first year I felt relaxed and that I could take on that hobby of mine that I had put on a shelf and it was collecting dust. So I dusted it off and set my mind on this book. I was on a timeline as well. I wanted to see the movie but I have a stern rule of not watching a movie based on a book until I have read the book. The book is the original and I often find it thrilling to draw up the comparisons of the two.
I was madly and deeply in love with the introduction and was blown away by the idea/plot of this book. As a writer I saw so many ways this book could go and was excited to see which way the author was going to go.
Soon after I found that the pace was like someone taking off at a series of red lights doing zero to 60 only to come to a complete stop. I begged for the author to keep up but soon it was like it ran out of gas and I was on the side of the road trying to push the abandoned vehicle.
There I was pushing and time kept going by. My only resolve was that the ending would be just. So I held out for that. I was and still am disappointed in all of it. Why did the author go thru such a great introduction of suspense…take me by the neck only to torture me for days on end to walk away wondering where I had been and why I wasted so much time.
The movie was just as bad if not worse than the book. I was hopeful that at least Hollywood would go off the deep end as they often do with a book for movie title and rewrite it but NO they stuck true to the book in many ways and it too was a flop in my opinion.
I don’t give details directly to the book in case someone is indeed reading it and I hate spoiling someone’s journey into literature. If you haven’t read it and are considering it…for some it good be a good read but for myself it was depressing seeing a phenomenal idea go to waste.
So I give this book 2 out of 2 books:
