What am I reading

I have accomplished my goal of not reading as much this year. My last book of the year ties into the place that I work, which has recently finished its work to input German auction catalogs from sales during the Nazi era. (If you haven't liked us on facebook you should, sometimes we do pretty awesome things) The book I am reading is Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert Edsel. Also soon to be a sony picture release in a couple weeks. (perhaps, the date was pushed back)

I really recommend reading it, a great primer of the American involvement in WWII, but also covers a little known topic of the amassing of wealth and culture by the Nazi party by unethical means.(ex. That art found in jewish homes was considered "abandoned" and up for grabs if they fled Germany or sent to concentration camps.) It is written pretty cinematically and I am interested to see how it turns out on film, there are long stretches of the book where the soldiers of the monuments division are alone working for weeks and months but the movie looks like it is an ensemble cast.

Last night I was in a discussion, with some friends who work "in the industry",  about how studios are doing much better jobs of adapting movies for film. What do you think?