This book is AWESOME!! When I first read it, it was shortly after it came out and I bought it just by "accident"/ I was looking for something to start reading over a weekend because I was going to be working over a slow weekend, alone. I could not put it down--do you hear me?? I finished that book by the end of the weekend and I'm pretty sure that it was 800 pages! I have read it numerous times since as well as the sequels to it--all veyr good!
My only disappointment was when they decided to do a TV movie--ti was just awful. It did not follow the book closely enough at all. I would rather they did not do it if they couldn't do it right. I always thought they should have done it like "Rich Man, Poor Man' of the 70's and do it i parts over a few weeks. They could have done it justice that way and it would have been much more successful. Even the actors they chose weren't the right ones!
If you like soap operas, you will not be disappointed in this book! It has everything--organized crime, sex drugs, racial issues--OUTSTANDING!!!