True to the book

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2014)

I saw this movie as part of my local libraries "Movie and a Book" program and I enjoyed this more than most of the pairings. This movie follows the book very closely and never does something that wasn't in the book.
Having been written in 1977, I found the story to be surprisingly fresh and on the mark for many things that just did not exist in the late '70s.
One thing that I found disturbing while reading the book which was not so disturbing in the movie was the opposite of what the story is about. Where the youngsters think that the game is not a game -- the blur between reality and the game.