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Crow: City of Angels

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I read this book when it first came out and that was quite a while before the movie. I finished the book in about 3 days and when I was finished I figured that this movie would be better than the first...I was wrong. The book was great, went into great detail about everything and had such ironic ending. Watching the movie they cut so much out and changed the ending. If you didn't really like the movie get the book and see how it was all really suppose to be.

What the movie lacked in depth, the novelization by Chet Williamson makes up for and then some. After reading the book I couldn't help but think "why wasn't the movie this deep?". I highly recommend anyone that has seen the movie pick up the novelization. I enjoyed the movie, but felt it had too many holes in it. Chet Williamson's rendering of the COA story helps to fill the void left by the movie.

The film was great IMO but this book is perfect. Its very interesting and passionate. This novelization goes into detail that the film (edit we saw) cut out. The characters have more 'time' to develop and it feels more like a living place then the movie. The characters have depth and actually have backgrounds, lives, they are not just cut outs in front of Vincent Perez.

Even if you hated the movie pick this novel up, its great.

While the movie succeeded in some great visual candy, it didn't do so well plotwise. All in all, the book is better than the movie. Plus, you don't have to wonder what Ashe is saying.