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One For The Money,
a very good, entertaining novel by Janet Evanovich
("a Stephanie Plum novel")
has finally been made into a movie --
has been "in development" nearly 20 years

and now it's getting "bad reviews"...bummer, man

Am wondering, do viewers who haven't read the 18-book series just "not get it"?
Or are readers of the books disappointed because everyone gets their own idea in their mind of the characters and action, and then there's bound to be disappointment because the film-maker's vision can't please everybody...?

Or does the film simply stink?

Some make it, some don't.

Author Evanovich had an excellent tone in the first six books of the series -- after that, quality tapered off...she was writing other stuff, maybe spreading creativity too thin...don't know.
But One through Six are worth collecting; you find they're so "light," you can read them again and again & be entertained because you actually cannot remember how the plot went...!

(Some serious literature-Experts [culture vultures] might snipe that this is Too "light," but who is to say, when it's Entertainment?

If a book is so "light" I cannot remember what it's about and so can read it three more times and be entertained every time, then it's like I got 4 books'-worth of entertainment for price-of-one.

Plus, don't need to argue, if we like it, we like it.)

I wonder if the movie's director and screenwriters have read Stephanie Plum novels One - through - Six. Were I producing, would have made that a requirement. They'd have to
Read 'em,
and
Get 'em.

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Now it's one for the money,
Two for the dough,
Three to get ready
Now -- go cat go!
Now don't you --
step on my blue suede shoes...

-- Carl Perkins

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