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Interesting that you liked the movie. Going now to the book you will be wowed. Going from the book to the movie is often a dissappointment.
* I liked the “Hornblower” Series starring Ioan Gruffudd. Books were much better though.
*The Sherlock Holmes Series starring Jeremy Brett was faithful to the originals in every detail even taking dialogue from the stories themselves. For example in one scene, Holmes’ heroin needle can be seen on a table in the background! It is never pointed out and only a true Baker Street Irregular would even know why it was there.
*Suzanne Collins helped write the screenplay for Hunger Games, very faithful to the books as she made sure of it.
*”The Lord of the Rings” starring Elijah Wood is also very faithful to the books.
*David O Selznick’s “Gone With the Wind” is famous for being the best adaptation ever, the most faithful to its 1017 page source, although if he had dared change a line of it, Margaret Mitchell’s fans would have burned Atlanta in retaliation!
*The most unfaithful of all is the “sequel” “Scarlett” starring Timothy Dalton, which proved that Mitchell was right in refusing to allow a sequel to be made all her life. It was at the end of her life when her family told her all the money money money she was stealing out of their pockets by her refusal, so of course she relented. May God forgive them all. It turned out to be a service to mankind as we are no longer subjected to the “acting” of T. Dalton:-)

I have a Sabatini Collection on my Nook Reader now. There are 17 novels and dozens of stories included for a coupla dollars I paid. I am reading again “Mistress Wilding” even now.