Crumbtown (Vintage Contemporaries)

Rating:
Summary: it's all about style
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Depressing
Review: 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.