David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On the other hand, I actually have watched the movie of _The > Princess Bride_ more often than I've read the book. I dunno, > I don't *like* the dark side of that book very much, and they > ripped it out for the movie. Then again the author was > primarily a screen-writer, and he got to do the screenplay of > his book, so that story got favorable terms not offered to > most other stories. Yes! _tPB_ is one of my favorite films of all time of any genre. My wife once spent a summer vacation caring for two preschoolers who watched tPB and the original _Zorro_ at least twice a day. She still likes tPB. I haven't watched it that many times, but certainly more than ten times. The book I liked (and read before the film came out), but I haven't read it a second time. If you could guarantee to me that Jhereg the movie was > The general problem is that a novel is simply too big a story > to make into a movie. It doesn't fit. > > The specific problem is that so much of what goes on in the > Vlad books is internal. That's hard to handle in a movie. An excellent statement of the problems. Casey