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Ooooo, I get to rant about The Bridges of Madison County! I saw Oprah interview the author after it hit the bestseller list, and he admitted the photographer was based on himself, but Francesca was not based on his wife. Okay. Then I picked up the book and read it, and Waller went on and on in the book about how the photographer was a god and a shaman and just the greatest thing since sliced bread, and it felt like he wrote a love letter to himself. By the time I finished I hated that book with the fire of a thousand burning suns. The movie, on the other hand, had none of that, so I actually enjoyed it.
Sometimes less really is more.
The other "movie was better than the book" for me was the Gormenghast mini-series versus the Titus Groan books. A picture really is worth a thousand of Peake's words of description.
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