It's always been weird when I go back and read the source material for a television show or movie that I've already made an attachment too. With AMC's adaptation of the Walking Dead I'd already been a fan from the very beginning of the comic so I knew that the creative team making the show would take some creative liberties. But, it's a bit like working backwards going to the source materiel after already becoming attached to work that has been adapted. I knew that Jonathan Ames' Bored to Death short story would be different but this short is a one-eighty from the HBO series. Which isn't a bad thing.

The book definitely works best how the book reads. Noir is supposed to the lone gun or at least told from the narrators perspective and although funny and clever the ensemble cast of characters and their intertwining relationship works best on screen. The lone voice of Bored to Death Jonathon Ames is perfect for the story.

If you're a fan of the show you'll notice similarities between the story and the show but the similarities are more or less like a shadow cast over the finished work. You'll see the majority of them in the pilot episode.

If you're a huge fan of Bored to Death the show check this book out but please buy The Double Life is Twice as Good by Johnathan Ames don't buy this book unless your a collector (for some reason) or you only want this story. Bored to Death is only thirty pages at 10 bucks and The Double Life is Twice as Good which contains the Bored to Death story is 10 bucks too (on amazon) and you get more Ames and more book.