 Here's another one of my non sci-fi reviews to use as filler stay with me Okay, I bought this book online a couple of years ago because I Was buying some other books and I saw that it was available for a dollar So I just threw it in and I've I've always been curious about what's the difference between the book and the movie I've heard people talk about it for many many years. I thought I'd go ahead and give it a look Short story. It's awful for those of you who don't know breakfast at Tiffany's is about a young woman named Holly go lightly living in Manhattan the story is told from the point of view of a man a neighbor of hers who watches her life fall apart She's a liar and she's manipulative, but she's gorgeous. So everybody's in love with her and Then the story ends In the movie the the guy who's narrating the thing Ends up getting together with her they fall in love they kiss the movie ends the book that doesn't happen in the book She's a prostitute in the movie. She is not if you've seen the movie she has Friends over there are people in and out of her apartment all the time She's always having parties those men that are in her apartment Those are her customers as I implied with my description of the story earlier. I didn't have any sympathy for her I didn't really care about her at the end of the written version She ends up leaving New York and nobody knows where she's gone In fact, that's how the story starts with Fred who's unnamed in the book. He's at the bar Down on the first floor of his building and he and the bartender see a photograph of a wooden Carving that looks exactly like her and the photograph was taken somewhere in Africa like Kenya or Tanzania somewhere in darkest Africa which it would have been considered in the 1940s the question remains How did she end up traveling through the middle of Africa? And so he tells a story about how he saw this girl move into his building and I guess that's the big mystery of the book The big controversy because it's never answered Where she went after she left New York and that's that's the thing about non science fiction books And it's the reason that I read science fiction is because I want something Interesting and unusual to happen in what I'm reading something to hold my attention and in books like breakfast at Tiffany's Which are considered non-john refiction. That's the word for it. Just the stuff you find in the fiction section There is nothing to hold my interest If if breakfast at Tiffany's is considered shocking or controversial then I'm like, okay There's a story that HP Lovecraft wrote and I haven't mentioned Lovecraft very often I reviewed one of his books way back near the beginning when I started these and I haven't really mentioned him since because he was Such an awful racist. He he was really awful, but he read this one story that had a long title that I forget It's like the facts in the case of so-and-so. I forget about a guy who runs out into the street in public and sets himself on fire in the middle of the street because He discovered that His great-great grandmother was a gorilla Besides having a hideous racial implications The reason he wrote the story was because he was sick of seeing all these bland Popular stories written by people like Hemingway and other authors who were popular at the time He was sick of seeing those stories and people considering them shocking and controversial When there was nothing interesting in the stories at all like the big shock would be that somebody had an affair So it's one of those stories that you read it on its own merits and it just seems stupid But then when you understand why he wrote it. It's actually a pretty good joke So breakfast at Tiffany's made me think of that because nothing happened in it One of the things by the way, I was wondering about as far as differences I've heard people say that Fred was gay in the book and I never saw any indication of that in the book. It never said that Fred is gay I didn't even see it even implied Fred never has a relationship with Holly and he says repeatedly throughout the book that he's completely in love with her So if you're gonna take the words of the book at face value It's not there So next time you watch the movie ask yourself if Audrey Hepburn weren't so physically beautiful Would you care about Holly go lightly at all would you sympathize with her at all? Because there's nothing about her character about her behavior that if you ask me is in any way charming or endearing and The book made that worse thank you for watching please subscribe and Please press that like button. That's how my videos get seen and remember 30-second sci-fi and my other work are supported by patrons so please visit the links here on the screen and in the description below and Consider becoming a patron and remember you can make a one-time donation you