But the book is paced quickly, and is stylistically economical; the show demands that you listen to a suicide note for nearly thirteen hours, while the suicide in question is built up as the grand climax, the mystery whose specifics will finally be revealed.
As he spoke, a prisoner with tousled hair and dark circles around the eyes of his confused face paced quickly back and forth before the window of his cell.
"Our view is that we will come down off this sales pace pretty quickly".
Its relentless pace also quickly feels samey, but it's hard not to be jolted by it, metaphorically and literally.
As the players splashed around yet still kept up a frantic pace, Colombia quickly had a reason to feel aggrieved.
It's picking up pace quite quickly, and I think one of the reasons for this is that we've got very clear results on it's impact.
In part because Long keeps the pace moving quickly, there isn't always time for some of the detail the reader might crave, even for non-prurient reasons.
Their monthlong trek in the Himalayas, sponsored by the museum, was plagued with lost baggage, serious illnesses, dangerously bad weather and an exhausting pace that quickly did in the less prepared among them.
