Probably the only other book where I enjoyed the film version more than I did the actual novel. I liked this novel a lot, and I think the reason I liked the mini-series produced of this book so much more than the book itself is because there are so many things that can be read into a look and a glance and you cant see that in the novel -- especially a novel where the story is told in a kind of first person omniscient, not first person directly, but it only follows one persons view at a time, in a way, so you dont really get that intensity in Mr. Thorntons expression on the page even though its described adequately enough. I do like that the mini-series stuck to the book very faithfully (with only a few understandable distinctions), but all the main aspects of the book was there in the mini-series. The one change that they made that I wish had been in the book was with the character of Bessie. She was a much stronger character in the mini-series, I thought.
