As much as the movie was mushy and simple it was a pick me up movie for me, so I figured out that like most movies bsed on a novel the book must be better. The story in the book is much different from the one in the movie for once, there are some similarities, but it's not even close in the details. I found that the book's storyline really dragged at times, and I was struggling to keep in the story. Not that it is a bad book, but definitely not a great one either. If you love quaint little ...