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Crooked Little Vein: A Novel (Hardcover)

by Warren Ellis (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Morrow/Avon (3 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060723939
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060723934
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 13.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 229,779 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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The bestselling comic-book writer of "Authority and Transmetropolitan" brings his trippy and fast-paced style to the publishing world with his first detective novel. A burned-out private detective is enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the U.S. Constitution...the real one. Following in the steps of Neil Gaiman, "Crooked Little Vein" is packed with action, adventure, and a wild cast of characters that are sure to appease not only hardcore comic fans, but a whole new slew of mystery readers waiting for a surprisingly surreal treat that infuses the madness of the graphic-novel world.

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5.0 out of 5 stars America's Dark Underground, 12 Oct 2007
By Richard Kelly (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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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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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ellis is superb. Again., 4 Aug 2007
By O. Barnes "Easydog" (Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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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. It centres around the 'hilarious' escapades of Detective Mike McGill and his unfortunate habit of finding himself bombarded with perverts doing pervert things. It's quite frankly a book I fell a little bit in love with from the first two pages and I would expect most people to do the same. It's not pleasant most of the time, it's not a work of art that'll be placed next to nobel prize winners, but it will entertain, inform and make you laugh until spittle flys from your nostrils, and you've infected the other people on the bus with your twisted germs. Quite frankly if you don't buy this book, I will hate you. It has Godzilla Bukkake in it for god's sake, isn't that enough of a reason to buy it?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Strange and fun., 31 Oct 2008
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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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