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I will have a scoop of middle manager on a sugar cone, please.

Not for the squeamish or those who detest torture porn.

Fantastic so far! Just want to sit in a corner and READ but work and family keep getting in the way.

He has no explanation for her odd behavior either, but loves the thought of her breaking into apartments so she can beat around the bush.

He has no explanation for her odd behavior either, but loves the thought of her breaking into apartments so she can beat around the bush.

"Do I have to tell you I loathe your guts, Mister Detective?
"You don't owe me anything, I'm paid off"

"Her windows command the greenhouse. She saw us go in. I was obliged to tell her who you were"
"I don't like that," I said
His blue eyes frosted. "Are you attempting to tell me my duties, sir?"
"No, but I'm having a lot of fun trying to guess what they are."
We stared at each other for a moment. He gave me a blue glare and turned away.

What is the difference between a meth addict and a zombie?

Q is the name of the note I invented while composing it. To hear Q, you have to have your brain pulled out through your nose with a harpsichord, while simultaneously smacking yourself in your hollowed-out head with a dead trout. It's a beautiful sound, though you have to die to hear it.

The Jehovah's Witness scene is hilarious. "This Jesus guy was pretty special because he was born on Christmas Day in year zero. What are the odds of that? I'm glad you asked because I spent the last week figuring it out."

Whoa, did not see that coming!

The teenage angst is super thick.

Gory and intriguing at the same time. Who would kill someone for wasting their time?

Finally the story starts to gain momentum.

Evil sadistic washing machines

still going strong...loving it.

What a mind fuck this is. Love the pumpkin sun and the eraser rockets.

A bad clue's better than no clue at all. And sometimes a bad clue marks the halfway point toward getting to a good one.

LOL...a guy named Lobster was shot 648 times by Homeland Security and his friends broke apart his legs and ate him with melted butter and cocktail sauce

Genius bizarro absurdist humor.

...he says, absently rubbing at the lipstick smear on his testicles." WTF?? How odd.

What is "offensively inoffensive wall art"?

So far Lauren Beukes does a decent job portraying Chicago - not bad for a South African.

OMG...just what my literary soul needed.

so if you returned home after your parents were brutally murdered with no suspects apprehended, would you act so nonchalantly like a victimless crime happened? Good grief.

I now know what a cherry picker is!