Title: Entertaining, but not true to the novel...
Product review: Granted, jamming 800+ pages into a short television miniseries is a difficult undertaking, but changing the story around altogether is doing it a grave injustice. Part I of this miniseries does a reasonably good job of portraying the first half of the events from the novel, but Part II could have been a different tale entirely. The absence of certain less plot-crucial characters in an epic's transition from page to screen is understandable, but rewriting the course of events is unforgiveable. It's certainly worth watching, but if you have read (and loved) the book, don't expect this to be entirely faithful to it. If you haven't read the book, just be aware that you'd be getting a different story altogether.
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