The Book Was Better: Great Books Made Into Movies
Similar to my article, The Movie Was Better, this post is the about the reverse of that. I love to read and I love to watch movies. Sometimes the movie was better, but more often than not, the book was better. This list could be much longer but I cut it off by only choosing the obvious books to make the book was better list.
Brain on Fire
Brain on Fire is a memoir of a women who went through the grueling process of discovering she had encephalitis, a rare autoimmune disease that attacks the brain. I’m always fascinated how people discover an obscure disease and so this book had me totally engaged walking through the process of her diagnosis. Meanwhile the movie read more like a narrative and less of a memoir. The explanation made it so the book was better.
Because of all the details of the illness and the explanations as to why her and her doctors were making the decisions they did, it did not translate well into the movie screen. It left the storyline bland and not nearly as fascinating as the book. And so the book was better.
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