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Originally Posted by roshiq

It's really surprised me too! that was quite an interesting part of the story indeed. I haven't read the original story so thanks for notifying it out. Really, I'm now wondering why have they ignored this? For the movie length or what?

Length probably was part of it, but movie adaptations often pare a story down to its bare essentials so they can get the main point across. The book is called Ratman's Notebooks if you ever hear of it for sale, I recommend it. It's probably retitled Willard now, to capitalize on the movie.