Face Of Cheam

After rave reviews of the book and film I bought both the DVD and the book at the same time with the intention of reading the novel first. However, I found the book heavy going in places with three stories going on and you couldn't work out which character was saying what. I stopped halfway through and watched the film which was absolutely brillant. It's about an adolescent male who falls for a female of the same age but is a vampire and has been the same age for a long time. I then finished the book and was confused. Whereas the film is a straightforward boy girl love story, the book has the vampire turning out to be a adrogynous castrated male and is bogged down by paedophila issues that the screenplay quite rightly ignores. The film also ignores the obsession with the Kiss Destroyer album that the book loves. There is an american film version coming out next year (as there is with all great foreign subtitled films - Nikita, The Ring etc,) and it will be interesting to see what take they have on the story. Needless to say the film I love, the book not so much.
My next book is Matt Beaumont's follow up (after 11 years) to E, imaginatively titled E2!