It's about the Purim story, obviously - I rather liked it, but it was VERY Hollywood'd up - my main kvetches are that it had too many characters, too many actors, and it was over 2 hours long!

i read the book.

why is jewish? i dont' think the book's author is jewish (but i really don't remember)

The book? Megilas Esther?

should i doubt the authorship of THAT book?

no, i meant the book, based on which they made this movie (the cover of the book i had said there is a movie)

http://www.amazon.com/Hadassah-Night-King-...7831599-8924421

I posted a thread about this around Purim time.

Forgive my ignorance, but …. Why would anyone read this book? As compared to the megillah, that is?

I've read a couple of these biblical retelling books. I read another version of Esther (not this one) and it was pretty bad. I read the Ema'ot series by Orson Scott Card and it was pretty good. I read the Red Tent which I thought was awful. And then I kind of got sick of the genre.

When done well, I think these books flesh out the psychology of the stories; they also give a lot of nice period details.

why not? i don't take it as a halachic source or something. it's fiction, based on historical material. even though i usually have a hard time reading historical fiction (cause i can't know what's true and what's not), i enjoyed this book.

Oh….OK. Thanks for explaining it to me.

I checked out the Brooklyn and Manhattan libraries – it’s not available in book form anymore ….

Is too.

it was nice and holywood, i watched it as an amusing movie, wouldn't let my children/students watch it though.

the problem was a few kids in my class had seen it, and said "morah we know the story, and then she had a necklace that showed the king that she was jewish", the girl who said that was 5...

oh well, i set her straight at the end though

I agree. I enjoy the Ann Burton "Women of the bible" books.

did you check the BPL online catalog? i read it not so long ago

You're right, it's there too.

WOW, THANK YOU !!!!!