I read lot of comments in the net about if the movie or the novel is better. I think they both quite good. Movie and novel are quite different mediums. So it is not quite possible to compare both. I personally find the last capitel of the novel quite disappointing and somehow innecessary. Handongs mariage and his conversion to christiansm is for me a double betrayal against Lanyu.   16:45, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)