Can someone list the major differences between the book and the movie?
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This is what I have gathered so far...
There's a great funny introductory scene where we see Kemp arriving on a plane to Puerto Rico and it's in this plane where he meets Sanderson for the first time.
The book has a second major character called Yeamon who's a adventurous rebellious young man living like a wild child and a great inspiration for Kemp because of his freedom in thought and action, but is ultimately doomed by his hotheadedness.
There's a bar called Al's where most of the rum drinking takes place.
Kemp moves out of Sanders' apartment early in the book and rents a cheap crummy flat.
The scene where they all go to a local club and get thrown out so the locals can have their way with the drunk girl Chenault is much more explicit and disturbing.
Lotterman gets murdered by Yeamon in a fit of rage.
In the book, there is no diamond turtle, cock fighting, major drug abuse, happy ending where Kemp meets up with Chenault when he goes back to the mainland, there's much less focus on the evil entrepreneur subplot and the subplot where they try to save the papers and give one last middle finger to Sanders with their "tell-all" final edition.
Anything else? Any corrections?