Alastair

Tough to get into at first the prose is straight up and quite emotionless, but the further you get in, the more you get drawn in to the web of L.A underworld and crooked detectives. All of the main characters hold their own with the protagonist now really being revealed until towards the end, great read.

Great prose

I enjoyed this though not nearly as much as other Vonnegut

Never has there been such a shamus.

One of the hardest reads I've tackled it took an eternity to get through. But I thoroughly enjoyed Kafka's dark dreamscape of a novel.