It’s not that the book is bad, it’s actually quite good. But I remember when the movie came out everyone was saying how much more in depth and expansive the book was. So when I got ‘round to reading the book I was surprised how faithful an adaptation the movie was. The book was written when the Soviet Union still existed, so there’s some Cold War subplots that were out of date and excised from the movie. But other than that the movie is pretty close to Sagan’s book and, IMO, and better way to experience the story.
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It’s not that the book is bad, it’s actually quite good. But I remember when the movie came out everyone was saying how much more in depth and expansive the book was. So when I got ‘round to reading the book I was surprised how faithful an adaptation the movie was. The book was written when the Soviet Union still existed, so there’s some Cold War subplots that were out of date and excised from the movie. But other than that the movie is pretty close to Sagan’s book and, IMO, and better way to experience the story.