Hmmmmm. I have to dig this book out again. I meant to finish it before the movie came out, but once I put it down a couple years ago, I never really got the urge to pick it back up. It seemed to be taking me a long time to read, but I thought maybe that was because I was trying to read in German, which is not as easy for me to speed through. Not that I'm a record-holder in English. ;)