Crooked Little Vein: A Novel

from Mrs_McGreevy

One of the funniest (and foulest) books that I've ever read, & holds up well on re-reading. Mike is a down-on-his-luck detective who attracts bizarre clients and even more bizarre cases. He's approached by a powerful politician and asked to track down a missing book: an alternate US Constitution....

from PhoenixTerran

Wow. Okay. So, Warren Ellis is perhaps most well known for his comic series Transmetropolitan although he is the brilliant author of many other series and graphic novels besides. Having read a few Transmetropolitan collections, I can understand why he is so well loved and perhaps, in some circles...

from silverlisa

This quick read was pretty demented and a fun story. It explores the question of "what if" someone in the government had the possible ability to restore the "old fashioned" morality that the right wing republicans drool over. My husband is reading this now, and I wonder if he will also enjoy it!!

from slothman

Warren Ellis takes a seed from traditional hardboiled detective stock and germinates it in soil composted from some of the strangest niches of the Internet. The tale reads like Hunter S. Thompson after twenty years on the Fortean Times beat. The McGuffin in the story is a secret, backup Constitut...

from darkeye11547

Warren Ellis proudly dangles his genius in our faces again with this one. If you're from the internet, like me, nothing in this book will be particularly shocking. The imagery is wonderful and you'll be chuckling knowingly as you read his prose. If you aren't from the internet, however, you shoul...