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The Netflix version is very loyal to the novel. How timely as toxic trains crash across the USA.

@BreadAndCircuses Just got a copy and showed it to my urban geography professor friend who snapped a photo of the cover. The essays on transportation caught his eye. Really looking forward to reading this. Some of my heroes are in this book.

@unsquare The movie kept much of the great moments in the book. If you loved the book you will appreciate it.

As a middle-aged man, the character of Lacey appealed to me, as it obviously did to middle-aged Steve Martin. It is fun to be a fly on the wall as the rich and filthy rich buy and sell the most expensive paintings in the world in late 1990s NYC and Europe. But the endless shenanigans of this entirely self-involved group of snobs get rocked by world events and nothing is the same after that.

John Banion the firebrand right wing TV host asks the president a nasty question during a press conference. The next day, while golfing, he is abducted by aliens and "probed." His reaction is to convince the nation that many of us are being abducted. But the truth is even weirder. The Million-Alien March is 1/6 imagined two decades before it happened. Brilliant read. Should be a movie.

The way Patrick Carr transcribed Johnny's stories feels like you are sitting on the back porch chatting with Johnny. So many sins acknowledged, so much gratitude for forgiveness and that we all still loved him at the end of his life.