Readers will at least be able to visualize the characters

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2002)

Having just finished the book this evening, I RAN out to rent the video. I don't want to say it was a bad movie (it wasn't), but it omitted some of the most important parts of the book (for instance, it skipped letter writings as Washington Irving, the Chaplin's sidekick and the letters home, Yo looking for kid sister, and most importantly Nately's whore at the end). All in all though I was at least able to visualize the characters I had just read about and put everything into perspective. Think of this movie not as a full account of the book but sort of as a summary of Heller's story.