LogFAQs > #936070597

I liked their choice of opening songs for the first and second episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqZ8JJktw&t=0m20s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qJk4nzBIJg&t=0m36s

It was a fairly good adaptation, all things considered. It's kind of hard to adapt a 1000+ page book that dense as a fairly low-budget 4-episode miniseries. But they got a ton of great actors, everyone involved was generally taking it seriously and not half-assing it, and it was good enough that it encouraged a lot of people at the time to go read the novel for the first time, so there's that. And it was one of the first major roles for Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump being the other), where you're like "Say, I like this guy, I hope he does more stuff."

(Plus, for you 90s/00s kids, Patrick from Spongebob is in it, basically playing Patrick. So you'll love that!)

The novel is obviously better (novels almost always are), but the show hits most of the major important points. It collapses a few characters down (ie, one character in the show will handle the roles of multiple characters from the book), and ignores some characters and events entirely, but it does a good job with the time it has, and tells the story well enough.
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