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Well read-head: It wasn’t as good as the book

21 Oct 04:45am

Filed under: Adaptation, Book, Movie

Last week, I saw the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’. My verdict? It was good but not as good as the book.

That got me thinking: as a book lover, do I consider many films ‘as good as the book’? And when I do, what’s made it work?

In the spirit of one of my favourites, here are five of my top book-to-film adaptations:

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