The book is far superior to all the filmed versions. For one thing, there’s none of the horrid sexism which permeates the first film. I still enjoyed that one, but I roll my eyes at the sexism so often I worry they’ll fall out.
I tried watching the '99 remake with Liam Neeson, but quickly gave up. Awful, despite his presence.
My BF & I did V much enjoy the netflix series, with Timothy Hutton et al. He recently re-watched it, and noticed lotsa cool details we’d missed - “That statue was facing the other way a minute ago!” ferinstance. It makes a huge departure from the other films, and only quotes from the book a few times, but it’s a great, bizarre, creepy AF story.
