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Bullet Train
by Kōtarō Isaka
I loved the movie and thought the book might be even better. Unfortunately, that’s not really the case. All the interiority is on the wrong character for much of it. Either with a precocious but sociopathic kid, or the father of a kid in the same school. The movie recenters and films the more bombastic and hilarious scenes, while the book, because it attempts to ground so much of it in this meandering and circuitous trifecta, fails to jibe with the action sequences.
Everything great about it is cinematic, and the movie surprisingly added quite a bit of material that is, again, more in-line with what the story does well. This is still somewhat subversive of genre, and I probably would have liked it more if I hadn’t seen the movie. There’s really nothing superior about the story in this format, which is kind of wild. It’s why I fear picking up Fight Club, too. Everyone says the movie is miles better. It’s rare, but it happens.
Everything great about it is cinematic, and the movie surprisingly added quite a bit of material that is, again, more in-line with what the story does well. This is still somewhat subversive of genre, and I probably would have liked it more if I hadn’t seen the movie. There’s really nothing superior about the story in this format, which is kind of wild. It’s why I fear picking up Fight Club, too. Everyone says the movie is miles better. It’s rare, but it happens.