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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061252051
ISBN: 0061252050
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: August 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: July 22, 2008
Sales Rank: 235505
Studio: Harper Perennial
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Product Description:
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility, and Mom's homemade apple pie already dead or dying, that time is now. But McGill has a talent for stumbling into every imaginable depravity—and this case is driving him even deeper into America's darkest, dankest underbelly, toward obscenities that boggle even his mind.
Amazon.com Review:
Michael McGill is a burned-out private detective who suddenly becomes enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the Constitution of the United States, but not the one we all know about. This would be the real Constitution (the one with invisible amendments) created by some of the Founding Fathers as a fallback for their great experiment. Along the way, McGill gains a polyamorous sidekick named Trix, gets scared to death by what men do with warm salty water, and descends into a world where crime, sex, and madness all seem to be the same thing.
Full of mind-bending style and packed with a wild cast of characters, Crooked Little Vein infuses Robert B. Parker with Kurt Vonnegut and the madness of the graphic-novel world. A surprisingly surreal treat, it will appeal to hardcore comic fans, mystery aficionados, and all readers looking for a riotous summer reading adventure. Sample Chapter One of Crooked Little Vein
"Chapter One. I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It was a huge brown bastard; had a body like a turd with legs and beady black eyes full of secret rat knowledge."
Crooked Little Vein puts you right in the gutter from the first sentence and doesn't let up. Sample the goods with a look at the complete first chapter, and see if you don't get hooked.
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Rating:  -
The problem I had with this novel is the same problem I've had with other comic book writers who do novels. I think because Ellis is used to having a partner actually draw what everything looks like, he doesn't really know how to effectively describe in words what I'm supposed to be imagining. I'm told, for example, that the love interest is good looking continuously, but through most of the book I have no idea what she actually looks like because I've either forgotten the short description (and ... Read More
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Warren Ellis is a crook. He stole my precious time with his Crooked Little Vein. I can see what he was trying to accomplish; however, he fell way short. He had a lot of ideas...not necessarily good ideas, but ideas all the same...and I just don't like the whole "cut and paste" assembly of them. This may be my first exposure to his work, but I get where he was going. He just didn't get there. Is this review very broad? Yes. Is this book not very good? More yes. And I do mean, "more yes."
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Ellis is best known as a writer of comics, and the comic series this novel is most similar to is FELL, which is also a parade of (real!) varieties of perversity that Ellis has encountered in his research. Here, the absurd cardboard characters and episodic, fairground-ride plot which simply carries the passive detective and his improbable girlfriend from freak-show to freak-show will eventually weary the reader.
It's readable and enjoyable, but you'll be left feeling that you've been ... Read More
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I read Ellis's "Transmetropolitan" back in college and genuinely enjoyed it. Looking back now, I probably was attracted to the art style and the setting more than the writing. "Crooked Little Vein" is in the same vein as "Transmetropolitan", and while I typically like dark conspiracy novels, this one just felt predictable and cliche.
The book's exposition and plot setup are actually very enjoyable. The whole "alternative constitution of the United States" setup was a good hook and ... Read More
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Crooked Little Vein is some quality distilled Ellis - but I barely know how to review him as the writer of a novel. I found the book to be a lot of fun, but not as much fun as his comics. This is my view of other comics writers gone novelist. Neil Gaiman stands out as a prime example, and try to convince NG fans that his books aren't as good as his comics. It will get you on a lot of $hit lists, and girls in black will knock you down wherever you go.
The book suffers a lack of significant ... Read More
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