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The novel by Mildred Ames

posted 20 years ago by jack-smales
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I read the novel several months ago and I absolutely loved it.I ordered a copy from the libray,but there weren`t any books by Mildred Ames anywhere in the county.My copy came all the way from Texas and it was well worth the wait.I am dying to see the film,if I can find a copy anywhere,the only ones avalible in the UK are pre-cert ones so they aren`t rated.I know there a couple of changes(in the book Anna sees the clone in a shop)but apart from that is it faithful to the fantastic novel?

[–] paintbrush_2003 19 years ago

I read the book after I saw the movie(and it's been a LONG time since I read the book), but it seemed to me that as with a lot of movies it adapted the book for more intense action and tried to keep the "spirit" of the book rather than specific events. That being said, the movie had a much more sinister undertone--with a Nazi subplot I don't remember from the book, and, if I remember correctly, there were a lot more scenes of Anna in that "hospital" or whatever under observation in the movie than in the book, and the movie centers a lot more around the first, grown-up clone trying to influence Anna's life than the book. I loved them both, but the the movie and book seem distinctly different in my mind.