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Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim, #1)

Richard Kadrey

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Jul 31, 2012 Ms. Nikki rated it it was ok

Shelves: not-my-type-of-read, skimmed-hard-to-finish-or-unfinis, on-kindle-fire-nook-samsung, unrealistic, witches-warlocks-wicca-magic, angels-demons-gods, blah-boring-lost-interest, urban-fantasy, buddy-read

The Sandman was the most unintelligent anti-hero ever. Run into danger, get hurt, do it again with more anger. Everyone in the story was an asshole, asshat, or an ass. I wasn't feeling this story. A lot of the characters had the same voice! Even steal-your-soul Lucifer was all hey, can I borrow that. This read also over-dosed on sarcasm.

Not for me. I'd recommend Chuck Wendig's The Blue Blazes over this anytime. Chuck's anti-hero had heart and the world building was better. ...more

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Oct 27, 2012 Tom rated it liked it

Ugghh here we go. This was barely a 3 and here I go with the disclaimer againnn! 3 is about the lowest I do too. Which means I finished it and didn't hate it. I don't do 1's and 2's because if I'm hating a book that much I just bail and I don't rate books that I bail on.

This is the story of Sandman Slim. He is the hitman from hell. Literally. He is the monster who kills monsters in hell. Jimmy is a human that makes it to hell and once there becomes a star in the arena for killing the monsters th ...more

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Oct 27, 2012 Amy (caligurlreads) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This book seemed to drag on F-O-R-E-V-E-R!

It wasn't until the last 25% of the book that it finally started to make sense and at that point I was so far removed from it, that I was just reading it to get it over with it. Will I read the next one to find out what Slim and Kasabian do next...