Thee novel is stupid and unreal. It's written in an easy language. The whole story is about superficial things, and not about real feelings. We don't like stories which are so far away from our daily life. It can't be reommended to be read. It's not worth reading it We weren't very happy about seeing the film, it was neither boring because the film is quite old nor a "classical" for us. The American way of life is not attractive to us. Why didn't Ben's parents undertake anything against their son bumming around?