For the first, I have already seen the movie with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. I loved it so much and I was excited but I have not found that feeling in my reading ...
This is fine imagined but finally short and brief, too fast ... This lack of development, I expected more especially seen the movie.
In addition to the new is a cruelty without emotion because everybody told Benjamin to stop this phenomenon, everyone says it's his fault when there is nothing. The film is really a lot more moving.
The second story is a little better (although ...). Always imagined but still too short.
Besides John Unger, the boy loves silver, gold, precious coins ... He wants to be friends with rich people. It's still special, it speaks of luxury, killing all those interested a minimum at the Washington family. Strange and not attractive, I found.
I have not at all been captivated by this book, it's flat, short, not developed.