I've never read the book but everyone that I know who has read it (about 10 people) have said the book is great. I'll wait to see the movie before I make judgements about it (radical I know, but it just may work).
Well, you don't know me, but I read it it and thought it sucked. It was run-of-the-mill, graduate seminar creative writing nonsense. It was the kind of "literature" Hollywood producers find compelling.
"but everyone that I know who has read it (about 10 people) have said the book is great."
I saw the author on C-Span. He seemed like a hoser.