But it does take daring chances with a book that could not have been adapted otherwise, using extraordinary actors to rise above its occasional lapses.

He was given the duty of herding, and each day took his grandfather's cow to the field with ballads or a book of songs in his pocket.

A woman took her lunch break with a book and a lemonade at a shaded picnic table.

"They took a speculative leap with a book that was doing well," Mr. Ferguson said, "and sales went through the roof."

There's no point in fussing much about the liberties a film takes with a great book.

He had Cromartie take batting practice with a book under his elbow to correct it.

That's okay, it's the risk I take with a book like this.

They reached her hut without mishap and he went in with her, to find Freddy taking his ease with a book.

"You know, I don't think I have ever known you to take so long with a book."

What publisher is now going to take chances with a controversial book?