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Date Posted: 14:50:34 01/08/04 Thu
Author: Stef
Subject: Re: The book!
In reply to: Marty 's message, "The book!" on 07:35:59 01/08/04 Thu

"cara" Marty,
"dear" Marty,

well, fist of all i wish i had more time and energy for a longer answer, but dah!!! my day was pretty exhausting! :\

i totally agree, the message of L&D, the movie is about "love" true passionate love, the book is about the story of the strict boarding school with all its problems.

well, i like about the book to get a lot of details, like the letter to Paulies mother or why Mouse's father did not appear at the dinner.

but somehow everything in the book is described a bit "awful" i mean, there never is this beautiful surrounding, this awesome characters in the movie... the movie is more "sweet" and the book more "bitter" to me.

up to now i didn't really understood what these tests should have been good for and some of them could have been worked out way more detailed, while there would have been no need to describe other things that way...

i'm glad the ending in the movie is different, i would not like to see Piper in an ending like in the movie...

but maybe this would be better to discuss with the people who love to via email, as i don't want to keep reading the book.

take care,

Stef

>I've finished the book!
>...well,I like it!
>;-)
>I found it really weird, but I like how Swan writes, I
>like a lot Mouse, not so much Paulie (even if she is
>really interesting!!) and I miss that Tory had so
>little space. But I think the book and the novel are
>two things different, and I don't think they can ben
>comparate.
>The film is poetic, intense, speaks about LOVE, a love
>so pure that nothing else is important, and Lea Pool
>is superb!
>The book is a point of you over something different,
>the idea of Mouse and Pauli about to be a man, not
>about love. More, it's very important Morley and is
>relationship with Mouse, and so on (sorry,but I cannot
>explain very well what I feel and think!)...Pauli is
>really a well done character, every one can feel her
>pain, but I think the hearth of the novel is not love,
>but something else.
>
>Well, I prefer the film, but just only because it's
>more "real" than this weird story (that's true,in
>spite of!!)...I hope I could read the book in Italian
>too, because in English it's a little difficult! ;-)
>and if I like it in English, what about in my
>language??! ;-)
>
>You, what you think?
>
>BYE!

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