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harleykwin said:
Ok, so Dave Mama has recommended Vachss (yay!) and Moore (boo!) - so he's about 50/50 on his recs. I'm not sure if I should kiss 'im or consider his recs shite and never trust him again. But he recommended In Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami because of our mutual like of Out and I figured, let's see if he can improve his rating to a 2 outta 3...

I picked it up yesterday and read it last night (yay insomnia!) and totally loved it. It is very, very creepy. Kinda like Joe, but that's part of why I luvs him. Anyhoo, the ending was a little too abrupt for my tastes, but everything from the moment when Kenji, the narrator who guides tourists through the Japanese sex industry, suspects that "Frank" is a serial killer, to the moment when these suspicions are brutally and graphically confirmed - had me hooked. The descriptions of the murders are ... intense and a bit chilling and whether Kenji was gonna be next had me holding my breath. The last 50 pages were a complete head game.

Loved it. Dave Mama, you have redeemed yourself from your crappy ass Moore recommendation.

yay!

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Yay!

I also recommend, if you haven't read anything by him yet, Elmore Leonard. He does crime novels (and westerns, but I haven't read many of those) that read quickly because he's a master at pacing and dialogue. Some of his novels have been made into films, including: Get Shorty, Be Cool (which was clearly a case of him doing a novel for the money), Out Of Sight, and Rum Punch (filmed as Jackie Brown). If you're new to him, I recommend those novels (with the exception of Be Cool, even if I am in the flick), as well as City Primevil, Cuba Libre, Pagan Babies, Glitz, and Killshot. But you can't really go wrong with any of his novels.