Pretty anxious to read the book and then see the movie...Form what i have read, the only critics who didn't like it were, either religious or people who didn't read the book, and didn't understand a thing...But as per the critics of the book, the plot seems incredibly interesting.
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The book consists of a lot of dialogue. On the page, this is pretty interesting, at least as opposed to pages of dry description. However, when translated to a movie, there is the danger of the story becoming too talky.
The book is long and too much dialogue and details, even for me. I felt many of them were unnecessary.
I'm with you. Those wacky religious zealots at Cannes make me sick. They want a theocracy, not a democracy. And they own stock in Diebold. And they drowned the passengers of Flight 77 in the Atlantic to cover the Predator drone that slammed into the Pentagon on 9-11....
I tried to read it, but the writing is at the third-grade level.
The fact that it is so popular is because so many people who read it were functionally illiterate and reading a novel for the first time in their lives.
Naturally they would think it was great.
Critics who would love to grind the "Christer" axe are giving it thumbs down. Apparently it is really boring.
Not to mention that the monk offs a nun in a cathedral. Without getting hurt by her Ruler-Kwan-do.
Too talkie and cloyingly sincere. In other words, a big fat turkey.
Please pass the cranberry jelly...
Well, yes. I imagine if one did not read the book it might be quite difficult to understand.