Just another comment from me. I saw the film "The English Patient", directed by Anthony Minhgella, which won all sorts of awards. I didn't much like it myself but, when I then read the book, I detested the film even more. The film obviously condensed the book somewhat - which is to be expected - but it also changed the whole slant of the book, in which the English patient himself is rather a side character in the story. A major focus of the book is on the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and its psychological effect on the Indian scientist who is part of the bomb disposal squad. All forgotten in favour of a rather boring love triangle story.

And if you believed that Meryl Streep could lie dead in a cave in the desert unravaged by death for what must have been weeks, you'll believe anything...