The Commitments

The book was interesting. Obviously compared to the movie, which always omit several details, gave more information and helped me to add a list of words...Not always polite let me say ha-ha.
Never read a book about the start of a band, and in Dublin. Jimmy Rabitte was so into the music business and was passionate about it. Unfortunately all the problems, money, jealousy and just childish young adults made all the effort worthless. They even had a chance to have their own album but they just wasted it. I personally liked the movie better, was a lot of fun to watch.
There were plenty of differences between the movie and the book. The movie for example was a lot more explicit and precise about the time when Jimmy sent an ad to a newspaper, and received all kinds of people in his house pretending to know everything about soul. Dublin Soul. Jimmy’s twin sisters, who we did not read about in the book, were shown in the movie. On the other hand, the book was extensive when talking about the band’s gigs and performing. I got to say that I liked the movie better but for the reason that I was able to watch the group’s performances, they were really good.
In conclusion, great movie and book, funny characters and performances, Hopes and Dreams and lots of effort and fights. Soul band…too bad because they really had the Soul!