Brokeback Mountain

I'm very excited cuz today I finished reading the original short novel by Annie Proulx in which Brokeback Mountain was based about. It was a very short story but it took me a whole week to read the entire 55 pages of it since I did it while being at work. Unfortunately I couldn't concentrate so I had to read the previous paragraph before I could continue since everyone kept interrumpting me, either the customers or my wife but I managed to finish it just in time today to write a little blog about it.
So the story varies a little bit (very little) from the movie but in this instance I can honestly say that the movie was far superior than the book. Not that the novel was not very entertaining and sometimes very explicit (especially when describing nature, their odors and fluids, etc) but it was sometimes difficult to understand the dialogue as it is written as if you were phonetically putting their words together. For instance sometimes the word "a" meant "to" or "of" or even "a/an" but the words were cut short so that you can picture what their dialogue sounds like and I believe that's what helped both actors realize how they were suposed to sound when speaking and a sense of what they were thinking and the motives behind their actions.
What I disliked at first is the way that time flies in this story and the whole scene in which they first have sex in the tent up in Brokeback Mountain is just so raw and so quick that I almost missed that page altogether. I would have liked to have seen her write a little more of Ennis Del Mar's and Jack Twist's feelings and thoughts that were crossing their minds. Instead the act was over before you could even realize it.
There are little scenes of affection here and there, although very subtle they still made it to the big screen: like the note that Alma attached at the end of Ennis' fishing pole that read: Hello Ennis, bring some fish home, love, Alma. I can tell that paragraph was floating around in the author's head for quite a while and it made such a great scene to include it in the movie when Alma confronts Ennis in the kitchen.
Towards the end of the novel, I was actually looking for clues for what actually happened to Jack Twist which was briefly revealed in the movie but never explained fully. I believe that Ennis imagined what might have happened to Jack Twist exactly and that the story Jack's wife gave Ennis over the phone sounded so fake and insipid, his heart could just foresee what actually happened to him after all. I believe that statement to be true that you know when something went wrong with the love of your life. Many times I have felt what my partner goes through without him even saying it, there's a sense of telepathy one develops over the years like a mother and son, or two people that belong together, soulmates.
I believe that had Annie Proulx realized her story would touch so many lives, then she would have explored the characters a bit more, with more passion and maybe more encounters (in the book I only remember 2 or 3 whereas in the movie I remember many) but the story is heartfelt regardless and, even in the last page when Ennis Del Mar finds his own shirt tangled up in Jack Twist, his actions speak much louder than words (even printed words in this case) and the author leaves you with a feeling of emptiness and deception that translates into any language. It doesn't matter if she's talking about two cowboys, or two surfers, or two sailors, this is a story of two men in love who couldn't live the lives they deserved to live, no happily ever after here which is why this story is so touching and so real that still touches so many lives today.