I'm certainly not the first one to this party. I remember one of my childhood friends being very excited by this book long ago. I was skeptical at the time, as I am always skeptical about basically everything.
When the movie was announced, I resolved to read the book before I watched it. Now, I'm reticent to watch the movie. Unlike the case of The Great Gatsby, it's not because I was bored by the book. Quite the contrary, I thought the book was so good that I cannot imagine the movie living up to it.
