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Old 09-06-2011, 06:05 PM   #321
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Originally Posted by James_Wilde View Post
One of the few books where the film was better than the book. Not that I'm saying the book was bad, but it wasn't a patch on the film. I still cry every time Meryl's voice breaks in her eulogy, and I'm a man. Mind you, of course, the film was taken from several books, not just 'Out of Africa'. Come to think of it, was the book actually called 'Out of Africa'? I must go downstairs and look.
Yes it was, by Isak Dinesen. And among other sources of the film, I like both the Judith Thurmann biography of Karen Blixen and Silence Will Speak, the bio of Denys Finch-Hatton.

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