*Forgot to mention I have an icon from the art in Tam Lin: An Old Ballad, by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak (1990).
Howl's Moving Castle is wonderful, but I gather they changed a lot for the film, so you need to go in expecting something very different...
I'm very practiced at expecting differences between films and the books they were based on. I was telling someone just the other day the only time I made the mistake of going straight from reading a book to watching a movie was one of the James Bond books. The only things they had in common where the title and a few character names. It gave me a terrible cognitive dissonance headache. I learned my lesson.
...DWJ is much more stealth subversive than sweet, always.
Sounds like I might find I enjoy the movie more than book, but I'd still like to give the book a try sometime. If nothing else at least I'll know where Miyazaki started from.
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Howl's Moving Castle is wonderful, but I gather they changed a lot for the film, so you need to go in expecting something very different...
I'm very practiced at expecting differences between films and the books they were based on. I was telling someone just the other day the only time I made the mistake of going straight from reading a book to watching a movie was one of the James Bond books. The only things they had in common where the title and a few character names. It gave me a terrible cognitive dissonance headache. I learned my lesson.
...DWJ is much more stealth subversive than sweet, always.
Sounds like I might find I enjoy the movie more than book, but I'd still like to give the book a try sometime. If nothing else at least I'll know where Miyazaki started from.