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Crooked Little Vein (P.S.) [Kindle Edition]

Warren Ellis (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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"Packed with exciting, hilarious, and disturbing events...outrageously entertaining."--Winnipeg Free Press

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"[M]ay be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the 21st century."--Lansing State Journal
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 168 KB
  • Print Length: 292 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0060723939
  • Publisher: HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (17 Mar 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000U913LQ
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #80,914 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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4.6 out of 5 stars
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Exploring the underbelly of America. 31 July 2010
By Call me Sparky VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
An excellent, albeit short, novel as Mike McGill is tasked by the White House to find a secret constitution whiste supernatural powers.
Genuinely funny, it reads much like a Graphic Novel without p[ictures. It reminds me very much of Preacher by Garth Ennis. Journeying from city to city and state to state, McGill encounters depraved elements wherever he goes. Deviants, junkies and the nicest serial killer in the world all make an appearance in a road trip which encourages you not to make assumptions about others - nor to take them for granted.

As another reviewer has said, it didn't particularly shock me - probably saying more about me than anything - although there certainly is scope for that to occur.

Well wriiten, with brief yet incredibly real characters, I highly recommend it!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Strange and fun. 31 Oct 2008
By K. Charlton
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Not quite as depraved as some reviews would have you believe, unless I have become a little jaded by exposure to the Internet. Which I suppose is the exact point the book is trying to make.
Genuinely funny tale from start to finish featuring a burnt out P.I. a love story, conspiracies, reptile love, saline infused ball bags, a bizarre plot and a background of depraved sickos.
It is funny, honest.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars America's Dark Underground 12 Oct 2007
By Richard Kelly TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Warren Ellis is best know for his comics work, but he has finally managed to produce his first novel. The story centres around a private detective, Mike McGill, who is hired by the US Government to find the "other" Constitution of the United States of America - this contitution is a mystical document capable of resetting the morality of anyone who hears it being read to that of the founding fathers.

So Mike gets hired, he then has to trawl the sexual underground of the US to follow the trail that this document has left in its wake. If you have followed Warrenellis.com (or diepunyhumas.com prior to that) then you know where Warren's reseach interests lie. Expect to see lots of things from modblog (a body modification blog), dark sexual undercurrents and Godzilla Bukkake!!! All of this makes the book sound completely dark, but it is the most insanely funny wok of fiction I have read this year - my wife did ask what was so funny about it, but I didn't have the heart to tell her about the saline testicle injections (remember ignorance is bliss).

It is superb - 10/10
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Having read Fell(W.Ellis comic) I decided to pick this up too and was not disappointed. Its quite visual and to the point. Very funny. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Caurus
5.0 out of 5 stars Painfully funny at times
I thought I knew what I was getting into with this book, a thriller with some dark humour thrown in, with a pretty dismal-sounding title that made me assume it would be a bit of a... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Tand
3.0 out of 5 stars Funny, dark, but a little limited
Warren Ellis is known for his graphic novels, which whilst still literature are a completely different animal, so it was with some interest that I read Crooked Little Vein. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2011 by Jamie Mollart
5.0 out of 5 stars Warren Ellis excels himself
Again. foul, hilarious and evil, I laughed so hard I gave myself a prolapse. Read it.
Published on 29 Sep 2010 by Cronan
4.0 out of 5 stars Oh Warren Ellis
please have my mutated internet babies. I love your bearded face - I'm sure you have a mouth filled with fangs. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2010 by Charlotte Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Physical adventurism doesn't automatically make you a freak
This is a twisty little novel. I should hold my hand up and say that I think Mr Ellis has a great brain for writing, and fits an intriguing little niche of off-the-wall, blackly... Read more
Published on 19 July 2010 by S. Bentley
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't let your wife or servants read this book.
This is appalling meretricious trash and Mr Ellis should be thoroughly ashamed of himself. By pretending his protagonist has an elevated moral sense, he uses this as an excuse for... Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2008 by Ian Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars review
very much in the vein of the transmetropolitan graphic novels.warren digs into the underbelly of american culture. Read more
Published on 14 Aug 2008 by D. J. Clements
5.0 out of 5 stars Intrigue, Subterfuge, Society Today?
I had great expectations of this novel - maybe they were too high? Because the reading didn't last long enough, being quite a short book it was over in almost an instant. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2008 by Chasamatazz
5.0 out of 5 stars Ellis is superb. Again.
I've just finished reading the import copy I got from Amazon's American wing and I have to say tht I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2007 by O. Barnes
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