Just bought the book after watching the movie. As I understand it, the book is very different as it tells the story from the perspective of the FBI and shows a bit more about the beginnings of the FBI too. I also know it made a massive splash when it came out (there was quite a bit of a bidding war for rights to adapt it) and is on quite a few of my friends’ favorite books shortlists, and its author David Grann is known as one of the best writers working nowadays. So, movie had big shoes to fill, I understand I’m gonna get something different out of the book anyway due to the perspective dichotomy. And I also understand that given the nature of this sub, no adaptation besides maybe No Country for Old Men can ever be worthy of the book it’s adapting to many here. But still, how far short did this movie come of your hopes? How well does it live up? Is it a pitiful comparison, one of the “greatest books of the 21st century” having been adapted the way it was by old out of touch Scorsese focusing too much on the white perspective and giving too much empathy and emphasis to Ernest? Personally I loved the movie, if people say it’s way worse than the book that’d tbh make me even more excited to read it, though it’s a pretty long one and prob gonna take a few months to read
by Traditional_Land3933