[patriciaruth]

As for the movie of DH, there is the middle of the book that will be cut way down.

But, in a strange way I liked the pages and pages of wandering around, the false starts, the deprivation, the irritable moods, etc. because much of the real world fighting of evil (like the war in Iraq) is like that...no quick Hollywood solutions, just day in day out fighting evil or trying to figure out how to fight it.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Yes, you're right, a lot of the "wandering in the wilderness" can be passed over or cut out... but I rather liked reading it, too. It was sort of fascinating reading it and waiting for something to happen... watching the characters relationships gradually fray until it all blew up with Ron leaving.

[null and void]

It was their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness...