Better than the book

Rating: 9/10 (3 April 2018)

I read the book several years ago. Being a child of the 80's the pop culture references were right up my alley. I enjoyed the book but didn't love it, it was poorly written and there was no suspense at all. The film was much better in this regard, and I really enjoyed the changes made. They made sense given the film needed to be for a wider audience, and you can't fit the whole book into a 2 hour movie (I get very tired of reading reviews where people are disappointed about things being left out. I guess they all want a 5 hour movie?) Overall I really enjoyed this. It captured the spirit of the book while being its own thing entirely.