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Review title: "Translation" ruins the story
Product review: Before the movie's release...I read Just Like Heaven. I can now say the movie has to be better than the book. I know it was originally written in French and published there, but the American/English publisher seems to have commissioned a literal French to English translation with horrible results. There is a complete lack of understanding for spoken American English and general American life. The errors make it seem as if the author "just doesn't get it" and would have been much better off setting the book in France with French characters. Street intersections are "crossroads." EMTs are "doctors" who answer calls from the hospital. Doctors and technicians are interchangeably referred to as "medics" (although no one is in the U.S. Army in this book). I could go on.... If only a decent translation had been done, reading this book would have been much more fun. The twist at the end is sweet, but it's painful to get there.
