[mikepurvis]

It's very funny and engaging, but I first read it young enough that I still expected that kind of story to include some kind of redemption and turn-around— in reality the characters (esp Sherman) basically spend the whole time making a bad situation worse and worse and worse, continuing to double down on their mistakes and ultimately bury themselves.

Not that this is at all bad, but it was a change from what I was otherwise used to reading as a teenager.

[JackFr]

It was astonishing that the movie was so bad.

The book was pure capture-the-moment 1980's New York City, and the movie captured none of that and featured Tom Hanks' worst work since Bosom Buddies.