“I was highly disappointed with this book. I had read, and loved, everything else he wrote. I bought this hard cover and dove in and it was painfully boring to me. Also, if you have read any other of his books, it is wholly predictable what the dead antagonist's great secret is.”
“How can't you like a Raymond Chandler/Philip Roth hybrid? Genre-bending is this generation of narrative's emerging hallmark (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay and comic books?). It's like Kurosawa and the western. Take a relatively cliched genre and reinvent it. I thought the book was hysterically funny and turned the hard-boiled detective story into something I may actually return to...”
