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Willie Wiss _illie_iss — Actually this is a re-read. Goodreads doesn't offer a button choice to indictate thus. Mr. Whittington wrote a bunch of noirs. This one is generally acknowledged as his cream of the crop. It reminds me of Westlake's early noirs.

Camila Pirela camipi — Interesting. I had this marked as "read" but I hadn't actually read it until now -- I was given it years ago, and it has sat on bookshelves in several dwellings, but I only just now cracked it open. Anyway. I have always been ambivalent about Stephen King. I once read somewhere that you could break the U.S. American tradition of horror writing into two strands, one with a Protestant sensibility epitomized by Stephen King, and one with a Catholic sensibility epitomized by Anne Rice. I haven't liked everything I've read by Rice, but I've liked most of it, and at a few earlier points in my life I read her voraciously. King, on the other hand, I made a few attempts to get into when I was younger, but without much success. There were a few things of his that I liked, but not enough to convince me to keep going, particularly after two spectacularly unsuccessful attempts to read The Stand that foundered on finding it completely uninteresting. You could probably make a case that there is virtue in focusing on the brutish everyday of ordinary American life rather than on Mayfair witches or bratty narcissistic vampires, but I remain unconvinced. This illustrated novella wasn't bad, however. I didn't like it at first. That very characteristic way that King has of relating illustrative details about the people and places in his stories can be very effective, but it can also just read as "Oh, there's Stephen King doing a Stephen Kingy thing," and you see him being clever more than the story. I felt that way quite strongly at the start. But it grew on me, and by the end -- and it was one quick, simple read -- I was reasonably drawn in and quite enjoyed it.

Thomas Lystlund _homas_ystlund — this book was good just...really slooooooooow