Harold and Maude

I'm not a big fan of novelizations, but when I learned Harold and Maude was based on a play and later novelized after the film (and by the screenwriter!), well, I had to read it. It reads like a novelization, but if you're not familiar with the movie I don't think you could tell, if somehow that all makes sense. It's really beautiful and you get some motivations of Harold and Maude that you just can't get in a movie. Even knowing the ending, I teared up. It's really well done.