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CASINO ROYALE
Ian Fleming (paperback)
Not content to keep James Bond at the card table, Royale's scripting
trio fleshes out Fleming's plot with an origin story, a Madagascar
jaunt, and Daniel Craig in a snug swimsuit.
Last Word
The film's darker take on 007 is a headier cocktail of grit, sex, and
suspense. — Hannah Tucker
A GOOD YEAR
Peter Mayle (paperback)
The '04 novel's vineyard-inheriting stockbroker (Russell Crowe) gets a
fuller romance and more childhood flashbacks. Screenwriter Marc Klein
also de-emphasizes a secondary plot about a mystery wine.
Final Word
Mayle's sensuous prose is a higher vintage. — Michelle Kung
FAST FOOD NATION
Eric Schlosser (paperback)
Schlosser adapts (with director Richard Linklater) his 2001 nonfiction
exposé of fast-food corporations, inventing characters and (potentially
real) scenarios.
Final Word
The book's stories of gross-out animal slaughters and corporate
shadiness are more absorbing. — MK
