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Book vs film: Team Book takes the win

A collage of book covers for Warm Bodies, The Gunslinger, Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief, A Wizard Of Earthsea, Never Let me Go, The Lovely Bones, The Color Out of Space and Howl's Moving Castle.

Last week I closed up Book vs Film: a season of reviews comparing eight novels to their big-screen adaptations. The books won, but as the cliché goes, it’s about the journey, not the destination. The working title for this season of The Book Corner was “good book, shit film”. As group-sourced projects often go, not […]

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Book vs film: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Kiera Knightley, Andrew Garfield and Carey Mulligan in 2010's adaptation of Never Let Me Go

The Book Corner season 5: Book vs film. Episode 5: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Ishiguro’s sixth novel was published in 2005 and its film adaptation, scripted by Alex Garland, was released in 2010. Read on, and I’ll explain why the novel is a great example of bad storytelling that the film fails […]