This was a highly entertaining read. Fast-paced, over-the-top, and scatological. Recommended to anyone who likes hard-boiled detective novels and reading about bizarro sex sub-cultures. I had some minor quibbles - could have done with another round of edits and it got a bit preachy at times - and, t...
This is the weirdest fucking book I have ever read. And I've read some fucking weird shit.I'll be honest here. I started off not liking it very much, mostly because of the writing style. It just isn't very eloquent. But I had to know what crazy-ass shit Michael McGill would attract next, and before ...
So, sometimes you read poetry, and the poet does surprising things with language. They use nouns, verbs, and direct objects, in something approximating their natural occurrences, but it's entirely unexpected. Leaves of grass holy crap! the wine-dark sea perfection! petals on a wet, black bough how t...
Man I'm so disappointed with this book. It starts off wonderfully, dare I say, Hammett-y - I can never resist a washed-out, bitingly cynical detective, especially one that does daily battle with a rat. We meet Mike McGill when his latest client shows up and gives him an awesome case (find the *real*...
Down and out detective Michael McGill gets hired by a shady government type to find the Constituition. The real Constituition. McGill's case takes him deeper and deeper into a bizarre subculture of sex and drugs. Can he find the Constituition AND maintain his sanity?I bought this in an airport a ...
Meh. Quite a few funny lines, but it was too much heavy sarcasm. It had a blurb from Joss Whedon on the back, and it struck me in the vein of "Buffy" -- dripping in sarcasm -- but like Buffy's decrepit, disreputable uncle, the one who drinks too much. I liked its nasty edge but was thoroughly uni...
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