While on vacation I needed to find a book to read on the way back and saw a cheap copy of The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty for sale. Since Halloween was coming up I figured now would be a good time to read it. The story is well known... The daughter of a movie star gets possessed by a demon and then there is an exorcism. With a book that has such a well known movie it is hard not to continually compare it to the film. The film is faithful to the book but really minimized the roles of all of the supporting characters... so much so that they are hard to remember in hindsight. In the book the roles of the Regan's nanny, the police detective and Father Dyer are all expanded and give the whole story more depth. Now that I think about it, most of those characters are pretty pointless in the movie.
I enjoyed the book. There weren't really any surprises since it the film stuck pretty closely to it, but I liked getting an expanded version of the story with a bit more depth. And of course it was scary. I'll give it an A.
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