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Crooked Little Vein (P.S.) (P.S.)

Author: Warren Ellis
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 19707

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5 x 1

ISBN: 0061252050
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780061252051
ASIN: 0061252050

Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

review August 14, 2008
very much in the vein of the transmetropolitan graphic novels.warren digs into the underbelly of american culture.
i felt the ending was a little rushed but a gr8 journey getting there

5 out of 5 stars

Intrigue, Subterfuge, Society Today? January 10, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I had great expectations of this novel - maybe they were too high? Because the reading didn't last long enough, being quite a short book it was over in almost an instant. With a few chapters having only a handful of words, this isn't a hard feat. I would suggest anyone reading this to take their time and savour this story. A real page turner, it is excellent, and I would recommend reading it to any fan (or otherwise) of Ellis.

It starts off fast paced, and never really loses it's grip. Unfortunately I felt the ending lacked something - it kind of just dumps you from the euphoria of reading it, leaving you a little numb. But with a warm glow.

It is very amusing, even laugh out loud at points. Based on modern society can be a bit shocking and disturbing even. Sadly, it is also probably so very, very true.

5 out of 5 stars

America's Dark Underground October 12, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Warren Ellis is best know for his comics work, but he has finally managed to produce his first novel. The story centres around a private detective, Mike McGill, who is hired by the US Government to find the "other" Constitution of the United States of America - this contitution is a mystical document capable of resetting the morality of anyone who hears it being read to that of the founding fathers.

So Mike gets hired, he then has to trawl the sexual underground of the US to follow the trail that this document has left in its wake. If you have followed Warrenellis.com (or diepunyhumas.com prior to that) then you know where Warren's reseach interests lie. Expect to see lots of things from modblog (a body modification blog), dark sexual undercurrents and Godzilla Bukkake!!! All of this makes the book sound completely dark, but it is the most insanely funny wok of fiction I have read this year - my wife did ask what was so funny about it, but I didn't have the heart to tell her about the saline testicle injections (remember ignorance is bliss).

It is superb - 10/10

5 out of 5 stars

Ellis is superb. Again. August 4, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I've just finished reading the import copy I got from Amazon's American wing and I have to say tht I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It centres around the 'hilarious' escapades of Detective Mike McGill and his unfortunate habit of finding himself bombarded with perverts doing pervert things. It's quite frankly a book I fell a little bit in love with from the first two pages and I would expect most people to do the same. It's not pleasant most of the time, it's not a work of art that'll be placed next to nobel prize winners, but it will entertain, inform and make you laugh until spittle flys from your nostrils, and you've infected the other people on the bus with your twisted germs. Quite frankly if you don't buy this book, I will hate you. It has Godzilla Bukkake in it for god's sake, isn't that enough of a reason to buy it?