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Title: Book is a mess
Review: It may be surprising to know that this is one of the cases in which the movie is a lot better than the book.This book is literary garbage, an over-written mess with a terrible story.The main problem has to do with just how ridiculous and convuluted it is. If you've seen the musical movie, prepare for a story that is not only different but of poor construction. This is likely from its serialized roots. The convolution would be fine if the work was not written in a ridiculous amount of detail that muddles the already fuzzy story.People also complain that the book is anti-semitic. A top criminal is referred to as a Jew. That claim is ridiculous. If you know a lot of crime fiction, you'd probably know that there are a lot of Jewish criminals and they usually are identified by that detail.I adore the film, which is classic and has great music. Stay far away from this book, which IMO is bad.
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