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Originally Posted by Ea
I think a big reason that books not always works so well when done as a film, is that books are typically too long, and a lot has to be cut out of the story in order to make the material fit a 1 hour 40 min. movie. With loss of detail and characters, the story may suffer.
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Which is the reason, I think, that many of the best film adaptations are those of short stories or novellas, rather than novels. A particularly excellent adaptation, IMHO, was that of Barry Longyear's SF novella
Enemy Mine.