Wow! This is a great book, but I wish I'd read it before seeing Martin Scorsese's Masterpiece of an adaptation. I can now safely say that this is one of the rare instances where the movie is better than the book, and the book is really great to begin with. The book focuses much more on Hugo and less on building the characters and world of the train station. The subplot of the station inspector having a crush on the flower shop girl is totally invented for the movie. Otherwise, the two are almost identical story-wise. If you liked the movie, there's little need to read the book, although it moves very quickly and is quite enjoyable. The book contains hundreds of pages of amazing pencil artwork (many of which have been captured frame for frame in the film.)If you haven't watched the movie, read the book because it will make you want to watch the movie even more, and vice versa. I'm going to leave it there as this is a book related post and this book only makes me want to watch the movie, so I'm gonna go do that.
9/10
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