You'll have to watch it after you finish the book to see how it compares. I thought it was pretty decent without reading the book. Yes, it is pretty silly the things they choose to focus on sometimes. In Michigan they now have recycle bins at the Meijer store where you can put your used plastic bags in them. We usually give ours to my brother in law for his store, he reuses them there. There are even people who take the plastic bags and turn them into floor mats and handbags. It's crazy. My mom was making them to send to Haiti for a while, but they found out that people were attacking women and stealing their recycled plastic bag handbags, so they stopped sending them!