5 Times the Movie was Better than the Book

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It is an axiom universally accepted that “the book is better than the movie”. And most of the time, it’s an axiom that holds true.

But not always. Sometimes, there are truly not-amazing books that, for one reason or another, end up being transformed into iconic and amazing films. Much more rarely, amazing books are turned into transcendental films that, at least in this writer’s humble…