PaperbackI saw the movie years ago, which is my preferred order. Going book then movie results, too often, in "but why'd they change this or that?" and "they totally missed the point of the blahblah!" Going movie to book means that I can enjoy the movie on its own terms and then go to the source to have the experience enriched rather than ruined.
And wow, was my experience enriched. Everything just felt so inevitable -- I was never doing the eye-rolling that occurs for me when reading so many everything-goes-wrong books. Usually the obvious avenue is ignored; the one thing that someone should obviously say or do goes unsaid or undone. Here, however, everyone behaved how everyone would and tragedy is around the corner... exactly where it would be.
It's a terrible, compelling piece of work.
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