I really enjoyed reading this. I had watched the movie way before I ever read the book and I can say that if you can't reasonably keep the movie out of your head while reading this then you won't enjoy it. The book and movie are almost nothing alike. Some of the names are the same,but it all (except for the vacation) takes place in Ireland. No one is from America in this. But that doesn't mean that one or the other are bad because of it. The book has so much more depth than the movie and that's just because it's a book. Plus if Hollywood does anything it has to Americanize it some how. So just bear all that in mind when you go to read this book. Both are good but very different.