MrT said about westlake's _the hook_: It's a terrific (as
well as terrifying) noir novel: one of the three or four best
books he's ever written. By the way, have you read The Ax,
which is one of those three or four?
Even if you don't think as highly of these novels as I do, I
guarantee you won't be able to put them down...
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finished it! great book. you were right... i couldn't put it
down. now i'm anxious to read _the ax_, since al and bill and
mark (hope i got that right) thought it was better than _the
hook_.
the book reminded me of several other books. the new york
yuppie total disregard for life reminded me a bit of ellis's
_american psycho_, and the slow descent into craziness and
the accompanying ramblings reminded me of thompson's _killer
inside me_. the dark humor reminded me of some of kurt
vonnegut's books.
to be honest, when i got the book home and read the plot
summary on the back of the book, i groaned. some- how, the
idea of a writer writing about writers didn't appeal to me at
all. but when i dove in, i found it well written and fun. if
he writes his "light" work as westlake, i'm scared to think
of what he writes as stark. ;-)
miker
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