Forgive me if you already mentioned this -- I do not see it in the thread, at least -- but how was this book? When I saw it in the bookstore, I remarked to myself how clever the concept was from a marketing point of view. This seemed to be written with the intent of selling it to a studio for either a movie deal or an episodic series. I forget -- was it told in first person? Is it supposed to be a book series?
I recently finished The Paper Chase. Took me a while to read, but not because of quality, just time. Excellent book (or is it more on the novella side? I don't know). I loved the movie, and I thought the book was equally as good. A few flaws -- never liked the part in the film about going to the hotel and the comedy that happened there (happened to some extent in the book as well), always took me out of the plot in the same way that the comedy in the original Last House on the Left did for that horror piece; and I also thought some parts could have been extended in the book, like the trip to find the Red Set in the library and the resultant reverie over Kingsfield's archived notes -- but actually the book fascinated me for the most part, especially in the way it was written. Anyone who has read it had to have noticed how economical, and effective because of it, the prose was. Fascinating teaching device for writers, but I'm not sure that style is marketable today. Maybe only as an ebook.
I am currently reading Presto by Penn Jillette, as well as Powerhouse by James A. Miller, a non-fiction collection of quotes (mostly) about the CAA agency. Very good tomes. (And obviously I continue with King stuff.)
Did you start that yet? Just curious if it is the type of story that is good from the start or not.