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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 4996017, member: 974"] The reason Bonfires sucked as a movie had nothing to do with the plot of the book which was great. First, every character in the movie was miscast. They wanted to use big stars, so they ignored everything about the characters, they were all A-list actors but none of them fit their characters. None of them was natural. Second, the real story of the book was it's setting. The fall of New York. The trial is just a device to show you a civilization going to pieces. This is a brilliant novel, perfectly of its time, written beautifully with insight and humor. [/QUOTE]