the book's better!

(don't read below if you haven't seemed memoirs of a geisha and are planning on it)

memoirs.

i loved the book. loved the book. i read it for the first time maybe slightly more than a yr ago and i pranced right through it. when i heard the movie was coming out, i re-read the book, in a couple days. i would bring it to work, i would come home and just read - till i went to sleep. i would check on the movie's website for the pictures and the updates.

whenever a movie is made, based on a book - they always say the book is better.
for the most part, i usually haven't read the book, so i'm impartial.
but today, i kept trying to find all of the twists and turns and edits and missing characters and scenes and it was kinda disappointing. don't get me wrong i still liked the movie, and it wasn't slow to me - at least from what others kept saying - it's so slow in the beginning, blah blah blah. the movie already was like 2 1/2 hrs but it left out a lot of what i love about the book, the culture and lifestyle of a geisha, the reasoning behind - why. why did she have to change her name. why did they pick sayuri, why she needed a danna. why she needed to be adopted to the okiya. why her dad sold her and who he sold her to and how that got initiated and what a danna really is and answering all of these questions. giving so much detail into the lifestyle and how things were back - bacccccckkkkk then. i keep forgetting that movies made from books aren't going to be exactly like what i've read - but more of an interpretation...entertainment right?...but...

what happened to sayuri's danna?
what happened to mr. tanaka?
what happened to the artist? how she got on the poster for the spring dance? how she got the lead for the spring dance?
what happened with telling what happened to her sister after she ran away? or how hatsumomo really left the okiya? or they said mother decided to send sayuri (chiyo) to schooling before mameha - but noooooo.....
what happened to more of nobu? the chairman didn't come to rescue sayuri....that was nobu.
auntie didn't say - no to the sister and therefore she didn't get to go to the okiya. that's not how that happened? what about how this happened? what about the mr. who she ended up doing it with from the teahouse? what happened to them after her and the chairman spilled the beans.

oddly enough, it makese me want to read the book for a third time now....starting.....now! ...