This is one of the books I was not sure about, because I wasn't sure about the movie. I saw the movie the first week it came out in theaters and never saw it again. The only thing that I really remember was this was the best performance that I have seen by Robert Pattinson, and that the movie was better that I thought. Other than that I remembered nothing.
So, when it came to reading that book I thought it was going to be very boring. I thought that it was going to be long and miserable. However, I was wrong. It's has to be one of the most enjoyable books I have read.
Now, because I am somewhat of a prude the only thing that I didn't not like about the book was the sex. Now, It's not a porno by any means, and other who have read might have just thought normal. However, I didn't need to know some of the fact that was said. However, that is my own personal preference. However, a thrilling tale about a circus is hared to beat. Throw in a good heated man, a love story, and and elephant and you have yourself a great book.
The movie did a really good job with following the book, however, there are some grievances. In the book there are two people that Jacob has to look out for, August and Uncle Al. August is the man married to Marlena, and he is in charge of the animals in the circus. Uncle Al is in charge of the whole circus. In the movie they make August in charge of the whole circus and Al is not even in the movie at all. I didn't like that because it made everything they did in the movie a little less threatening. This would have been noticed by someone who has never read the book before the movie. Without that being a factor some other stuff was changed. Like in the book you could feel the tension from the whole circus where when Uncle Al is not in the movie all of the tension comes from Jacob's story. You also loose out on how incredibly screwed up August is. Just how jealous, how vile, how evil that man gets is really lost in the film. The stories of the side characters, like Camel and Walter, don't seem as important in the movie. They are there and they happened but the development of that family isn't there. The grieve of the end of their stories is not as significant.
Even though you miss out on all the great stories between Jacob and the other characters, I have to say the movie does follow along really well. I know they had to change it for it to read better of them film, they followed how the book makes you feel rather well.
I will say that I would watch and read both again.
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