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At work a good morale booster is to read during breaks. After burning through the 33 1/3 of Loveless I turned to The Beach by Alex Garland. I had read this book once in high school, learning about it from the movie. Reading it again, I am taking so much more away from it. After having smoked and drank and gotten to know mary I can understand the little things in this book a lot more. I'm already halfway through it again and I tried watching a little of the movie to refresh my memory on some things, but to my surprise, I can not enjoy the movie anymore, its terrible compared to the book. I never noted this before. Hollywood yet again ruining a perfectly good story. The book, however, is timeless.