For some books it takes a couple chapters to catch my interest. For some it’s only a few pages. But Crooked Little Vein had me hooked on the very first page.
Crooked Little Vein is the first novel written by Warren Ellis. But, this is hardly his first published work. He’s an award winning writer of comic books and graphic novels, including the popular Transmetropolitan series. I haven’t read these yet, but after enjoying his novel as much as I did, I don’t know how I could not go back and read his previous work.
The book is about a private eye who gets hired by a guy from the White House to retrieve the Constitution of the United States. No, not the Constitution that everybody knows about. This one is the “real” Constitution that has invisible amendments and even some sort of supernatural powers. The book has been missing for decades and keeps changing hands in the seedy underbelly of sex, crime and politics.
As you may already know, I’m a HUGE fan of Chuck Palahniuk’s books. Crooked Little Vein reads much the same way for me. I’m likely not the only person to think that as I was lent this book by a fellow Palahniuk fan who said to me, “The whole time I’m reading the book, I knew I had to loan it to you as soon as I was done.”
I’m not a fast reader. It normally takes me several weeks to finish a book this size. I finished Crooked Little Vein in less than 4 days. This means most people will finish the book in a day or two.
You can find out more about Warren Ellis at his website, warrenellis.com and for those of you on Twitter, you can find Warren at @warrenellis
J, would you consider loaning this book to me?
D'oh! I totally would loan you the book, but, I don't own it. I borrowed it from Cory.