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The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

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... Because the writer resented that she had turned to me I became the handsome and dazed narrator, incapable of love or kindness. That's how I became...more

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He wasn't, I realized when I read those scenes concerning Blair and myself, close to any of us-- except of course to Blair, and really not even to her...more

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How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met?" "You'll have to test me out." "You have my info...more

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But the thing I remember most about the screening in October twenty years ago was the moment Julian grasped my hand that had gone numb on the armrest ...more

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The audience-- the book's actual cast-- quickly realized what had happened. The reason the movie dropped everything that made the novel real was becau...more

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The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.