As an aside: the movie is a surprisingly-faithful rendition, but tbh I was a bit shocked when I read that they were making it. So much of the book is winking a

As an aside: the movie is a surprisingly-faithful rendition, but tbh I was a bit shocked when I read that they were making it. So much of the book is winking and prodding at pillars of modern US culture through textual absurdities that were hard to translate to the screen. It works surprisingly well, but I'd just read the book.