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Day 19 - Favorite book turned into a movie





Stardust by Neil Gaiman is a wonderful book. What is it about? (partial summary from goodreads)

... tells the story of young Tristran Thorn and his adventures in the land of Faerie. One fateful night, Tristran promises his beloved that he will retrieve a fallen star for her from beyond the Wall that stands between their rural English town (called, appropriately, Wall) and the Faerie realm. No one ever ventures beyond the Wall except to attend an enchanted flea market that is held every nine years (and during which, unbeknownst to him, Tristran was conceived). But Tristran bravely sets out to fetch the fallen star and thus win the hand of his love....



I like the book immensely. After I finish reading it, I think the writer had craft a wonderfully written book. More like a gritty love story meets fairy tale. It have everything that a fairytale-loving heart could love, prince and princesses, curses, witches, goods triumphing over evil. But it is also dark, it does not shy away from gore or violence or passion. 




However why I chose Stardust for favorite book turned into a movie is because the movie surpassed my expectations and become even better than the book. For a book nerd, that it something that rarely happened. Movies tend to screw plots and characters and flow of the stories. However I believed Neil Gaiman lend his talent on the movie and turned it into something else. I had reviewed the movie a few years earlier, so I won't be talking more about and you can go there instead to see what I gushed.

Comments

Taqiyuddin said…
but i hated the movie! i thought you were being sarcastic when you reviewed it then. Tristan tied yvaine to the tree! brrrrrrrr
Dils said…
Hahaha.

Yes he did indeed. But he was remorseful about it and Tristan grew on me later. I love the movie, I think it is funny and cute and lovely.

That being said, some people taste in movie can really differs.
Soraya Zainal said…
i love the movie!

nak pinjam buku boleh?
Dils said…
Haha... nanti aku bawak bile berjumpa kembali

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