Oscar Schindler’s life more compelling as a movie than a book

Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s List(original title Schindler’s Ark) is one of those rare instances where the movie is better than the book. Everyone knows the story. It is a fiction novel, put together from a multitude of interviews, about the real life Oscar Schindler, a German factory owner and Nazi party member, who housed and ultimately saved over a thousand Jews from near-certain death during the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg took this book and make a cohesive, narrative, linear movie which exceeds the novel. The book is good, and won prizes when it was released in 1982, but it has an almost documentary-like style and lacks a lot of the emotion that Liam Neeson brought to the character. It is almost too fact-like when documenting the tribulations of the Jewish people. For me, it was honestly a bit of a chore to read. Without the movie, maybe I would have enjoyed it more, but the film is a lot better.