I've been thinking on this for a day or two, and I'm curious to know what others think.

When you write a review for a book, do you find it more challenging to write 5 star reviews, or 1 Star reviews? Personally, I find it easier to write reviews for books I hated purely because disdain isn't difficult to put into words.

When I love a book, though... Sometimes I just can't formulate a coherent thought about it. 🤣

Where do you fall? Or are reviews daunting for you to write either way?

Sooo.... I watched Nolan's The Odyssey two days ago and I finished reading Wilson's translation of Odyssey on that same day...

You can guess where this is going. xD

Nonsurpisingly, I have my gripes and issues with it - both old and new. I'm looking for new victims to vent to lol. I'm disagreeing with positive reviews out there, and I'm internally cringing at the thought that this might be a contender for the Oscars (which it will be, ugh).

So to make it appropriate for the book club: What critically acclaimed book-to-movie adaptations have you seen that you particularly didn't like, or even despise?

Let's step away on dunking on films like the Percy Jackson films with Logan Lerman or Andy Serkis' Animal Farm, because they performed poorly at the box office and with film critics anyway. Instead, let's break apart films that the majority actually liked, maybe even won awards, but for you it didn't do the source material any justice. Were the small detail changes so bad that it affected the entire plot, what absolute major thing did they leave out that help drive a theme/plot/or character etc, was the casting choice atrocious, did the author distance themselves for the film production, or worst case scenario, did that adaptation ruin everyone's perception on the original story?