so-soI really wanted to like this book. Characters, action, and world building all top notch. I just found the writing a little weak. I would have loved this when I was 16, it really reads like YA fiction to me.
so-soI really wanted to like this book. Characters, action, and world building all top notch. I just found the writing a little weak. I would have loved this when I was 16, it really reads like YA fiction to me.
pickA murder mystery from the murderer's point of view. This was my entry point to Patricia Highsmith, and it's a great place to start. Follow immediately with "Ripley Under Ground". The remaining Ripley books are a mixed bag, but each is worthwhile in its own way.
pickI don't know if anything rankles me more than the gross insincerity of writing a cover letter. Maybe that's why I love this fucking book. Dark, but funny as hell. A kind of epistolary novel where our most insincere mode of communication becomes our most honest.
pickA great book that's really hard to pin down. Is this horror? Debatable. I think of it as more of a coming of age story that happens to involve werewolves, ghosts, and an invisible girl. Recommended for lovers of the bittersweet.
My favourite book, bar none. By turns funny, sad, touching, filthy, crazy and brilliant. Not for the faint of heart, but so worth it if you can put the effort in. I've read all the Pynchon, and this is his crowning achievement. The tattoo is my ampersand, a symbol obliquely central to the book.
