Not necessarily better than the book, but one of the best adaptations of a novel I have ever seen. Of course, it took 3 LONG movies to make a faithful adaptation of the novel. A novel is just too much to cover to a single movie without trimming a lot of the content. Short stories and novellas are much better candidates (such as the Shawshank Redemption, as one of the other posters mentioned).
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Not necessarily better than the book, but one of the best adaptations of a novel I have ever seen. Of course, it took 3 LONG movies to make a faithful adaptation of the novel. A novel is just too much to cover to a single movie without trimming a lot of the content. Short stories and novellas are much better candidates (such as the Shawshank Redemption, as one of the other posters mentioned).