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I know alot of people say the book is always better than the TV show/movie.... and others don't read so much and wait for said movie. For me, its official... whatever I experience first is the one.

This is another example. I grabbed this after watching the most recent series of the show (Vienna Blood), and I have to say I liked the PBS version of Max and Oskar alot better than this one. The show version of Oskar is a tough, hard nosed cop that is dedicated to his job, and doesn't do much else (as many TV inspectors are). This book version show Oskar as a family man who likes to hang out with Max and sing and doesn't seem like he's all that good at his job. Max is pretty similar, and the addition of him actually chatting with Freud, instead of just being a fan of his work was fun, but Clara was also a big change... and not for the better.

I book is written pretty well, though there actually if anything is too much historical detail. The name dropping of musicians and artists moved from establishing the setting to a humble brag about the research done quickly.

And I have no doubt Tallis' Vienna is accurate and well done, but its just too much... perhaps that's more noticeable because I'm alot less familiar with Vienna than, say, New York, Boston or even London as a setting, but it left me feeling like I was missing something, but it was more than I was willing to look up.

Not a terrible book by any means, but overall I was disappointed.