Better than the movie even with the racism and homophobia

It never ceases to amaze me how Hollywood always got the interesting bits wrong in these. Sure they’re racist and homophobic in a classically English middle class way but the women in the books are fully realized characters, unlike the two dimensional playmates of the films. And it’s not as if the movie versions were paragons of anti racism. The action is fast and the story, though fantastical, holds together. Totally fun if you can read it in the context in which it was written.