Marv's novel idea

SBC.com scored an interview with Marv Wolfman (Teen Titans, Crisis on Infinite Earths) regarding his upcoming novelization of Crisis. Curious as to how Marv plans on condensing the world's first maxi-series into a paperback? So was SBC:

To make this book very different and special, I decided it would be narrated by one of the heroes, to give an insight not only into the events, but also into the other heroes that we'd not seen done before. The hero I picked is The Flash who seemingly had little to do with the original comic other than get killed. Now he's involved with almost every major event that occurred. I sent my concept to DC and to Byron Press, whose iBooks imprint would actually publish the book and they loved it. I got the contract and immediately set about to work.

Flash you say?

Also, because it is being narrated by Flash, you have insights into characters that we've never seen before. And, lastly, because it's the Flash, it's also a true love story between Barry Allen and his wife Iris. Because of how the Flash got involved with the Crisis, Barry has no knowledge of whether Iris survived it or not. I'm extremely pleased with this aspect of the story, and I am willing to bet that you won't be able to read the final chapter without crying. Flash is also hands-on is responsible for the origin of one of the other characters who appeared in The Crisis. This should be a pretty good surprise to everyone.

So what do you think about this? I doubt that many new readers who aren't familiar with the comics will give this book a secong look, but fans will probably like it. I used to read those Marvel novels they put out, the best was probably a Peter David written Hulk novel based on Maestro, the evil future Hulk.