This book reminds me of a dark cartoon. I can see why his graphic novels are so popular. I just couldn't get in to it.

I thought it was going to be more exciting than it was. I didn't find myself liking the main character that much.

I would never have picked this book off the shelf which is one of the reasons I love book club. You get to read books you wouldn't normally pick. With this story (and it has been a while since I read it so hard to remember details) you never knew what was going to happen next and where it was going. Certainly wasn't predictable. Not my kind of thing but happy to have read it.

Knowing this has a cult following, we went in fairly eager, but we all agreed that seemed like a rough draft. I bet we said \\\"unrealized potential\\\" 10 times. The ground work was there, we kept thinking, it was about to get good. Perhaps this needed to be a trilogy and then blow this thing open. We could NOT see Richard as the great hero at the end, when he had barely gotten beyond whin(g)ing and moaning. It was just so unconvincing, though there were some barely realized characters that were good and the upper/lower London thing was compelling as an idea.