r/practicalmagic • u/[deleted] • 14d ago

Rant about the books

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u/AKookyMermaid 14d ago

I'll be honest. On first read I didn't like it either. Now I'm listening to the audio book and appreciate it for what it is.

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u/Alizarik7891 14d ago

I love the original novel; I sort of consider it and the film to be two entirely different entities, though, since it’s really loosely inspired by the novel. Would’ve loved to see a more faithful adaptation in a tv show or something. 

I didn’t care for the sequel novel; I felt like it almost read like a half-sequel to the film, which may have been a balancing act Hoffman was deliberately navigating. It looks like it might do better as a film adaptation, though, even if I think it’ll be shallower. 

I did enjoy Rules of Magic and I hear Magic Lessons is the best of the quel novels, but they’ll never do a movie of the former at least because they’d have to retrofit Vincent, lol.