• DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It was a monumental achievement, and I have seen it more times than I can count. I read the book 3 times.

    Unpopular Opinion: It doesn’t hold up as well as I would like, and I would be all about a remake that stayed true to the book.

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      5 months ago

      Having read it again not too long ago, I was actually surprised by how much of it was not good.

      The framework was interesting, but much of the actual writing wasn’t nearly as good as I had thought.

      Maybe it’s because I had read it in a Dutch translation the first couple of times, and the translator had had improved the prose without intending to, or maybe it’s because it was many years ago.

      Whatever the reason, I felt like it needed another pass of the editor.

      The movie, on the other hand, still thrills me every time I see it.