Hard Feelings
Jason Starr
Read February 2009
Copy borrowed from Ramsey County Public Library, Shoreview branch
Essay written Friday, April 3rd, 2009
It was a Saturnday after donating plasma in Mounds View, and I stopped at the Shoreview library. I had requested The Rest Is Noise for pickup there. Pick it up I did, but not before selecting some CDs and books. I happened to find myself on the ST shelf, amidst all the John Steinbeck, Danielle Steel and Wallace Stegner. Here I found Richard Stark (Flashfire) and Jason Starr. Both quick reads; crime. And with compelling book covers. Eye-catching, anyway. They caught me.
I'm not normally into crime fiction. I've liked the Dashiell Hammett I've read, and the other bits and pieces here and there. I've not been much for mainstream authors, and I think that's where most of your crime fiction lives. But I must be in a crime mood lately, because this hit the spot.
Dark. Maybe that's normal for crime. At any rate, if you're in the mood for a cockle-warming experience, don't read this book. The narrator is a murderer and a cuckold, and, oddly, the two things are unrelated to each other. It ends about as well as you might expect it to end.
I'm tired of New York City though. I should make a vow never to read anything that takes place there ever again unless the author is (A) a Nobel Prize winner or (B) Kurt Vonnegut.
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