I read the book during my eighth grade English class and though it infuriated me at first (which I realize nowadays was intentional) I grew to like it as I read on and actually saw where the story was going. I was surprised to see they were making a movie off of it nowadays since I never knew it as anything more than some (what I thought to be) obscure book they happened to pick for the class to read, but I did have a bit of hope it would turn out good and faithful to the original.
Shame to hear it didn't work out that way. Also doesn't appear to match what I'd envisioned the community to look like. I always thought it'd be a more small-scale thing like a real-life gated community as a small town with contemporary stylings but this looks all grandiose and futuristic. Yuck; doesn't portray any of the intimacy I felt from the book. Plus I always thought Jonas was supposed to be much younger than this; isn't he 12 in the book?
Shame to hear it didn't work out that way. Also doesn't appear to match what I'd envisioned the community to look like. I always thought it'd be a more small-scale thing like a real-life gated community as a small town with contemporary stylings but this looks all grandiose and futuristic. Yuck; doesn't portray any of the intimacy I felt from the book. Plus I always thought Jonas was supposed to be much younger than this; isn't he 12 in the book?