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Well, the book wasn’t quite what I was expecting. Perhaps I’ve seen too many parodies of it, not realizing so many quotes were pulled directly from the original. They interfered with my ability to lose myself in the book. Every time a familiar line came up, it broke the spell. As issybird said, it started to feel like a parody of itself.
That said, it was fun in campy kind of way. I’m glad to have finally read it, though once is enough. It’s interesting to see the original, and how John Huston shaped it into such an iconic movie. My admiration of him went up.
I had similar thoughts to the points you’ve all raised, including the changes in language. I thought Brigid was much too young to have done all those things, and I really couldn’t see attraction. I was flabbergasted when he said he loved her, after all those lies. Why?? It had to be the spell of her lovely sunburn.
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