I LOVE Alfonso Cuarón’s sci-fi action movie Children of Men. I’ve watched maybe six times and every time, the ending always almost brings me to tears. So when I learned it was adapted from P.D. James’ book of the same name, it was a no-brainer deciding what my next book would be.
After finishing the book, it wasn’t difficult to reach to the conclusion that I enjoyed the movie better.
While James’ book gives a more in-depth look at how human infertility and humanity’s slow death march towards extinction affects the sexual dynamic between men and women and almost demented ways humans try to cope with a world without children or a race of dead men walking, I feel the book dedicates WAY too much time describing the failing of human civilization and the Regrets and guilt of Theo Faron. It’s not even until after 2/3 through the book where it feels like the plot and story are properly paced and stuff of consequence actually begin to happen.
The film’s adaptation by, comparison, feels consistent in its pacing and the world building and woe-is-mes of Theo feel more compact a take up less of the audience’s time.
What books do you feel were worse than its film adaptation and why?
13 reasons why, even though it's a show instead of a movie. I think the story talks about a super important topic, but the show is poorly executed and the book is even worse. Hannah Baker appears to be incredibly whiny and entitled in the book and it's plainly exhausting to read her character voice. It took me almost a week to finish this book, even though it's rather short and back then (line 6 years ago), my attention span wasn't as bad as it's now. Normally, I would've needed probably 2 days at best for a book this length, but because of Hannah Baker's constant whining and complaining and her just being a super exhausting main character, it took super long.