Peter Souter

3 better than 2

Pretty ho hum Miller edginess. You can see the bones they picked over for 2, but his ideas for 3 were way better

A perfect end to the series. Crazy to think I've been reading this on and off for over 16 years now! I remember picking up the first collection when I was still in high school...

Like I lot of people I found out about this book based on it's insane synopsis (as revealed by this tweet):



I looked it up on Goodreads to see if it really was as crazy as people said it was, and I noticed it was on offer on Amazon for £1.

So I bought it.

It's such a strange read. The tone and pacing changes are whiplash inducing. People randomly go on strange tangents and talk to themselves, time-travel, plot-strings that go no-where or are solved in one paragraph, random life-lessons and snide commentary (“ISIS take over Ranch in America because of political correctness”... wat). Plus sex scenes.

And yet...

And yet...

And yet, I enjoyed it. It's a short read, and I burned through it in two sittings. It's like junk food or reality TV. You know it's not good for you and there's lots of other things you could be consuming instead, but you keep flipping pages.

God help me, I kinda wanna read the whole series and find out how it got to this point...

A great tale of the rise of NWA and gangster rap, marred by constant name dropping and random tangents about the authors brush with the famous in the 60s and 70s.

Okish

Edgy and bloody as Millar always likes doing, but leaves you feeling mostly pretty empty. Tying it into the extended Millar verse doesn't help...