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02 May 2006
I'm always faintly ashamed of reading books which have been recently filmed, and which have stills from the film on the cover. I'm not sure why, but I always think that I'm radiating a kind of 'she's so lacking in an appreciation of literature that she'll only read books based on films' vibe. In fact, I haven't seen the film of Brokeback Mountain yet, but I'm very keen to do so now.
This is a wonderful collection of short stories. I tend to either like really long and meaty books that I can lose myself in, or well-crafted short stories that give the impression of being glimpses into much larger stories, and this collection falls into the latter category. Before reading it, I was wondering how they managed to make a full length feature film out of a short story (and one of only 35 pages, at that), but the Brokeback Mountain story leaves so many spaces for your imagination to fill, that I can see why it reportedly made such a good and emotionally engrossing film.
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