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Gone Girl is a good read. A light one but a good one. I quite enjoy Gillian Flynn. She also wrote Sharp Objects, have you seen it? And Dark Places which I’m not sure if they turned into a movie or not.

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always meant to watch Sharp Objects, looks great. It's languishing on the 'long list'... lol.

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Oct 24, 2023Liked by Simon Sweetman

The interesting example is 2001: A Space Odyssey - based on Arthur C. Clarke’s “The Sentinel” short story but then novelised subsequently, also by Clarke. I can recommend the well-written novelisation because it actually tells you what’s going on the film, which - because I’m just a visual passenger - I didn’t quite parse the first, second or fifth time I saw it. That said, I’m terrified to watch the film they made of “The God of Small Things”.

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