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Title: Could have been a great movie...keyword, COULD
Review: I bought this book, read it, and enjoyed it. Of course it's not 100% original, but it was good. Then I heard that they were making a film adaptation of the book. I was not worried, "if a teenager can write a book this good then just wait till the professionals get a hold of it." Boy was I wrong, more like "look how the pros ruin a teens perfectly good novel". That said, the portions of the book that were in the movie were fairly good and I enjoyed them - however a 1 1/2 hour movie just does not cover a novel of this length. It would have been very easy to make this into a 2 - 2 1/2 hour movie, I know I would have watched it. It is very unfortunate that this film adaptation was ruined simply because everything was kicked into hyperdrive and no one had time to enjoy the movie.
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