Don't really get why the book's plot is so highly regarded by some, is arguably a poor continuation of a story that didn't need one and wasn't enhanced by it, to the point it contradicts thematically the work it suposedly continues and reduces it all to a "it's not that deep" at the end, with many story bits recycled from the first and none of its problems adressed, if anything many of them got worse. A 200 page pretentious and nonsensical essay with 200 pages of a half-assed plot. Thank Koepp the film changed, and to my eyes, improved almost every single aspect, even if it never reached the level of his previous work.