You Can't Judge a Book by its Cover ... Especially if it's a Movie/TV Series Tie-in Cover?📕👍👀👎

PLUM by Brendan Cowell

I hate when book publishers change the cover of a novel that has been adapted to the big or small screen and the movie or TV series has significant changes to the adapted novel to render them almost different stories.

I recently watched the TV series 'PLUM' and then read the book, and it was like picking up a copy of Stephen King's 'The Shining' thinking you were about to read Kubrick's movie version.

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I get why some points of the story were changed or things left out for TV, like the purchasing of the rope at Bunnings and giving it to the woman in the wheelchair to mind at the poetry venue, especially after the passing of Paul Green after the book was written, but before the TV series started filming.

But if you picked up the book thinking you were going to get the story in the TV show ... sorry.

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Another major change between the book and the TV series was Plum's drinking buddy in the book was an ex-jockey, but in the TV series is an ex-AFL player who barracks for the Brisbane Lions.

Not long after I watched the TV series again after reading the book, Troy Selwood (an ex-Brisbane Lions player) took his own life.

Joel said Troy had an “obsessive” personality and was
“maybe the neatest writer in the history” of humankind

While the TV series and book of PLUM aren't as different as the movie and book versions of 'The Shining', there's still enough differences to claim "false advertising" on behalf of the publishers.

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And I certainly don't recall reading about scary Plum owls in the book:-)

Maybe Plum has some other problems in his life besides head knocks?-)

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