Peter Firth #2

[lottanyman]

So...got "World without end“ on Friday and made it through a good third of the book until today. (Had some time to kill between starts on a swimming competition – very good for reading!!)
I think it surely is an entertaining read. Quite easy and engaging, however Ken Follett’s characters always are a little one-dimensional. The good ones are truly good and even in case they make some mistakes they will be led back to the right path and the bad ones are just that, moody, bad-tempered or mischievous.

Considering that a film adaptation of a book mostly always condenses the original and therefore often simplifies in order to make characters even more recognisable and their features more typical I fear that there will not be so very much space for the actors (not only Peter) to fill their roles with much diversification or subtle character development. And I like having some subtlety in the things I watch...

As for the amount of screentime I think Peter has one of the minor major roles so maybe he will not be in so many scenes but then again some of them are some key points of the story which cannot be easily left out.

And we should at least get a "wet costume" scene although not in a romantic Darcy manner