Anchorhead said:

You are correct sir. Good eye. It's an interesting read. Plenty of it made its way into the film. Some of it it is very different, however. The idea and the message are still very much the same. As much as I dislike the Burton version, he does work in one aspect of the book that is interesting. Of course, he had to Burtonise it and muddy the message.

As a big fan of (most of) the original 5 movies, I really enjoyed reading the book. It's amazing because it's pretty short, but you can tell that material from it was pulled into at least the first 3 movies, and maybe even more after that. And still there is a lot of material that never made it into a movie.

And ditto on the Burton part. Darn, I really wanted to like that movie.