None of them were in the book. I must have seen ten times plus. There are many, many insultingly dumb things in this book, but arguably the worst is that two of the bad guys are named John Milton and Charon. 0671014102 Unfortunately pedestrian - and predictable - book from which the much more famous (and far, far better) movie was made. Throw in the Second World War in Italy as the back drop, and it is a perfect storm. I had no idea it was based on a book until last Saturday when watching the DVD again, I let the end credits roll longer than I usually do and noticed. 0829421564 42 people found this helpful Right? Morris West's--The Devil's Advocate--is a perennial literary classic thriller that is an intermixture of politics and religion, which explores the behind-the-process investigative scenes of Catholic saint making. So much to tell and happened in the second half of the book. So I immediately went and bought it.The Devil's Advocate is one of my favourite movies. It is true the faith is a gift and without it the world is in chaos. You need Jesus. It was a bestseller when it came out around 60 years ago and I think itThis has had such an effect on me. Makes it clear that for particular constituencies their alliances and differences keep shifting in subtle ways that matter, even if overall rather similar.A very satisfying and very dated novel. Straight away I disliked our main character, he was shown to be great at his job, but his morals were shown to be rather dubious. The simplistic plot construction is equally brain-deadening. The setting in Southern impoverished Italy, post war.Although the writing in this book contains much more description and lengthy conversation than I am used to, I found it engaging and very well written. With such a blow, hMorris West's--The Devil's Advocate--is a perennial literary classic thriller that is an intermixture of politics and religion, which explores the behind-the-process investigative scenes of Catholic saint making. The books explores a lot of religious aspects as well. ?Imagine my utmost surprise when I got to know that the awesome movie was based on this book some years ago...!Imagine my utmost surprise when I got to know that the awesome movie was based on this book some years ago...! 'Nuff said. Or maybe I just liked Al Pacino as the devil.The movie is simply brilliant, one of my favourites for all times. This book was hokey, poorly written and ridiculous, so much so that It got to a point where I was entertained more by how over the top bad it got as opposed to aone of the rare cases where the film is.much better than the book.
At the age of fourteen, he entered the Christian Brothers seminary ‘as a kind of refuge’ from a difficult childhood. Andrew Neiderman is the author of over 44 thrillers, including six of which have been translated onto film, including the big hit, 'The Devil's Advocate', a story in which he also wrote a libretto for the music-stage adaptation. It seems like a good idea to me for obvious reasons. Never has an author aimed for creepy foreshadowing and missed so.wildly. In World War II he worked as a code-breaker, and for a time he was private secretary to former prime minister Billy Hughes. I first read this book as a youth of 13. Start by marking “The Devil's Advocate” as Want to Read: The devil is one sneaky dude. All the brilliant, incendiary speeches where Milton philosophizes about law and human nature, all the great character moments where Milton lets Kevin choose his own corruption, none of that is in this book.
This, of course, is handled better by Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, and Charlize Theron in the movie. On the contrary: it pretty much bored me from beginning to end, not containing a single fact that I actually hadn't foreseen.In general, not a book that surprised me. I had some trepidation about how the author would handle the sexuality of the artist Mr. Black, especially knowing that the novel was first published in the early 1950s. Honestly this is one of the best books I’ve read for a long time. The third book I read of this author and another enjoyable read. It challenges faith and lack of it, smells and bells, and the disheartenedThis is my new favorite book. It was first published in 1959 and its Catholicism plus the time it was written make it a dated read. The story is excellent. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.