false 4907243 6 <DIV>From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of <I>Tree of Smoke </I>comes a provocative thriller set in the American West. <I></I> <I>Nobody Move</I>, which first appeared in the pages of <I>Playboy</I>, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, <I>Nobody Move </I>is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres—the American crime novel—but does so with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson’s own. Sexy, suspenseful, and above all entertaining, <I>Nobody Move </I>shows one of our greatest novelists at his versatile best.</DIV> 4972768 27 4 2009 Nobody Move: A Novel total:419|5:49|4:135|3:169|2:49|1:17| 419 1407 731 152 3 14 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 14:21:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 18:24:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 16:57:55 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 03:02:58 -0700 2009
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The Plot: Jimmy Luntz is a grifter whose bad luck catches up with him when a man named Gambol shows up to collect on Luntz's gambling debts. Rather than take things lying down, Luntz ends up shooting Gambol and leaving him fo...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 08:25:13 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 06:38:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 00:55:50 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 02:42:23 -0700 2009 Playboy pastiche of Elmore Leonard. It has sticky passages of hilarity, barbed dialogue as punctured as epigrams, and the usual motley minor misfits entangled by emotional aphasia and pluck. The plot's shot full of holes, sliding off the page like brainbits of ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 06:23:07 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 06:40:22 -0700 2009
Unexpected side effect during or after reading: Urge to read a better crime novel.

New thing I learned from reading this book: Singers in barber shop quartets may not be as wholesome as they seem.

General observations: The jacket notes o...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 22:18:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 12:19:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 16:59:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 11:04:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:32 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:57:28 -0700 2009 Critics were puzzled by Johnson's choice to follow up the award-winning Tree of Smoke with a lightweight genre piece like Nobody Move. While most viewed the novel as a laudable exercise in style and technique, a few considered it a literary side stepóa minor work by an acclaimed writer. Taking a fe...

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Blowing someone's head off, while extremely visceral/ shocking, and probably just plain disgusting, is also incredibly easy to do if you have a gun. I know this sounds dumb, but think about it. Johnson's instances of violence in this novel seem to come almost too incredibly e...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:28:41 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:46:03 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 07:01:29 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 08:46:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 07:55:25 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:40:32 -0700 2009 This was an easy and entertaining book, and there were moments of amazing writing, but it was weighed down a little by the conventions of the hard-boiled crime novel. John Hawkes 'The Lime Twig', now that was a book that reinvented the crime novel. Or 'No Country For Old Men' for that matter. ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 20:10:54 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 20:25:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 20 17:31:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:46:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 10:47:19 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 10:59:35 -0700 2009
Apparently a departure from his usual style of prose, I expect to have to put in a little work ignoring my expectations when I read either "...more...]]>