> Has anybody read Jen Banbury's Like a Hole in the
Head? It was on the
> discount table at Border's, and I passed it up--the
first page didn't do
> anything for me, and the jacket copy claimed it was
a marriage of
> Gen X and
> hardboiled, which made me shudder. Amazon
"reviewers" blurbed it as
> "Maltese Falcon Meets Marx Brothers," so I'm even
more suspicious. Still,
> I'd like to hear from anybody who might have read
it. It was only four
> bucks, should I go back and give it a chance? Or am
I being needlessly
> cynical, and ... well, hardboiled?
I was disappointed by this. The main character comes off as
mean-spirited, as opossed to clever or smart-alecky. Dumb-ass
plot. It's sort of like a Roadrunner cartoon, only not as
clever, and annoying as all hell.
Tribe
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