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Crumbtown

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I really wanted to like this. I even read it a second time and I still felt like something was edited out as it's disjointed and missing something to make the story workable. There's some parts that are good but the lingering thought remains that it's either too long or not long enough.

Satire? The joke fell flat.
Parody? It's not clear what it's mocking. "Reality TV" is too easy.

Feel free to disagree but the ending and the characters aren't compelling. I also read his first novel afterwards and I liked that but wondered what went wrong with this effort.

Underwritten and half baked. Connelly seems to be gunning for a film adaptation with this so why not skip the middleman and just write a screenplay instead? I'm a big fan of "Bringing Out the Dead" - both the book and the movie - and Noir. This book satisfied neither of those appetites. Nonetheless, I'll still take a look at his next work in hopes of something better.

Hey, it's noir, so it's not supposed to be uplifting (see previous review by joe4prez), but it's funny, and oddly stylish. It does fall apart at the end, which is less than satisfying, but it is a fascinating vision and worth the read.

I purchased this with a click mistake, but decided to read it anyway. Still a big mistake. Either the author is English challenged or just doesn't give good discriptions. Really hard to follow!

No plot line...need I say more? Do not, under any circumstances, read this book!

I gave this book 70 pages, and it was 70 pages too much. Where as the writing style has it's merrits, the story is told in about as boring of a way as possible.
My suggestion, choose another book.

I have to say the only redeeming quality of this book is the interesting way Connelly weaves together the disparate stories of his characters and brings them into contact with one another in circumstantial events. But yet the story was so intensely depressing. Does anything good happen even in such a crummy town? Truthfully his characters should all be on Prozac or just commit suicide, then burn the town down too. Not that I'm into wanting a happy end to every story, its just that the bad that happens to these people is just so pitifully stupid and repetative.