Kris L. (miss-info) reviewed The movie was better - catch it on Netflix. on 1/1/2009 + 386 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

It's very, very seldom I like a movie better than a book, but this is one story that was better told on the screen. I saw the movie first, and it was gently funny and so good, although the ending was re-written from the book and I didn't like the end of the movie even worse than I didn't like the end of the book. After loving the movie so much I read the book ... and it fell flat. Maybe if I hadn't seen it first, I would have liked reading it more. It seemed the humor was gone from the book.

Spoiler alert! The end of the book is a little hard to catch for some. Here's my take on it: Luo wanted to open the mind of the girl through literature, and he did such a good job of it that she 'out-grew' him and the countryside, and was ready for bigger things in the city.

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