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Off to a strong start with dead bodies.

I'm quite impressed so far. Very fluid, easy to read.

This is brilliant.

After the grimness of Daniel Woodrell, it's time for something wacky and funny.

I haven't been too excited by what I've read lately. I am optimistic that this will now change.

Library loan. I don't have the ashtray money, bro.

I'm a sucker for a good monster story.

Erudite yet light on its feet.

Sharpest dialogue I've read all year.

On loan in e-book form from the Brooklyn Public Library through the OverDrive Media Console. Cool!

This is just $0.99 for the Kindle right now. It's been on my list. I had to pounce.

Horribly, wonderfully warped. And where else are you going to find a running gag about Go Go Gophers?

Pierce doesn't mess around. He just hits you in the face right away.

This thing is so gleefully filthy it makes "Portnoy's Complaint" look like kindergarten stuff. I was actually a little worried what the people sitting next to me on the subway might think if they saw some of the choice passages. The other parallel is Frederick Exley on hard drugs.

To be reviewed for a forthcoming issue of All Due Respect magazine.

This has been on my list for a good while. I noticed a price drop on Amazon just now and pounced -- its time has come.

Great fun. It's like a literary game of "Civilization".

Frustrating book...I've put it aside for other things twice. It reminds me of Faulkner, and not in the best way.

Opening Day is around the corner. I put aside my other reading for this.

I've had this in the Kindle for ages, and its turn has finally come up.

The noir setup here is done just right...it's off to an amped-up start.

I'm "back" in Hull, England -- a place I've never visited, but I almost feel like I know it, thanks to Nick Quantrill's powers of description.

I'm always interested when a book takes place in a setting that's new to me, and the plotline looks quite promising too.

Elmore Leonard and Dominick Dunne are each claiming that Hilary Davidson is their daughter.

Ribald and very funny misadventures.

This is the best thing I've read this year to date. It jumps off the page with startling clarity.

The "Blade Runner" comparisons are inevitable...but what I'm getting here is a Thomas Pynchon vibe, with the playfulness and all the pop culture.

Carver's style is so spare and subtle that it took a few stories for me to savor it properly. But "Sixty Acres" knocked me out, and I fully expect more such reactions.

This is plunging me into a wild atmosphere. Ro Cuzon sure can tell a story.

Reading Nik Korpon is like listening to an adventurous band with a distinctive sound and rhythm.