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F and I watched the movie of Howl's Moving Castle not long ago, and F had never read the book, so I made him read it, and then I wanted to read it again. I was surprised at how much of the story in the book I hadn't remembered. I think this time around I was able to detach from the movie a little more and appreciate the story for itself.
I still think Diana Wynne Jones ends her books five pages too soon. I would have liked to see Sophie get more than five minutes of happiness at the end. I finish a Wynne Jones book and have to sit there for a while imagining all the nice things that undoubtedly happen next.
I think it would be a really neat exercise for a teacher to do this book with middle schoolers or high schoolers and then do the movie. In some ways they're the same story, but in other ways they're completely different.
I still think Diana Wynne Jones ends her books five pages too soon. I would have liked to see Sophie get more than five minutes of happiness at the end. I finish a Wynne Jones book and have to sit there for a while imagining all the nice things that undoubtedly happen next.
I think it would be a really neat exercise for a teacher to do this book with middle schoolers or high schoolers and then do the movie. In some ways they're the same story, but in other ways they're completely different.
