7/6/2023 0 Comments Steven gould books![]() ![]() ![]() They're not even close to the same story. The movie is COMPLETELY different from the book. The movie has a kid named Davy in it, who can teleport, and there is where the similarities between the two end. You can't know how incredibly disappointed I was when I left the theater. ![]() ![]() Given the post 911 sentiments in the United States toward terrorism, I had been crossing my fingers and hoping that this book would get a movie adaptation. When I heard that a movie was going to be made of this book I was extremely excited. A fact that the author is extraordinarily proud of. It was a book written for someone my age, that wasn't afraid to treat me like an adult, showing such things as homosexual child rape, child abuse, alcoholism, graphic terrorist attacks, and it even used the dreaded F word like FOUR WHOLE TIMES!!! No wonder that behind Catcher in the Rye, it is the most banned children's book in history. And I must say, I was really blown away by it. Being a teenaged boy at the time, these were the exact words needed to sell me on it. She handed me Jumper with a wink and told me that I had better hurry because the book was about to be banned at that library. So, I did the thing that all geeks do, and asked the librarian for a recommendation. When this book came out, back in 1992, I was in my teens, had just finished the latest installment of The Wheel of Time, and I was looking for something else to read. ![]()
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