Hi everyone!
How is it going? Is anybody reading it, too? I have read exactly 50% of the novel, I'm on chapter 19
.
I think it's really good, so well written! I love the atmosphere, it's like being in an American Film Noir movie
. I can't stop seeing Humphrey Bogart, and I also hear his deep voice telling me the story, reading aloud those parts written in the first person.
However, I find the story a bit hard to follow, quite a lot of different characters and the plot starts getting a bit fuzzy
. I had to go back a couple of times in order to remember who some characters were. But that happens to me as well when I watch a Film Noir movie, so I guess it's just part of the game
.
I think the atmosphere and the characters are more important than the plot itself.
Some sentences are really masterful:
"Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead"
"His glass eye shone brightly up at me and was by far the most lifelike thing about him".
"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate."