Title: Like it Less than Lew
Product review: I suppose this is great minimalist noir style writing but at times one can hardly tell what is going on in the story. Sallis gives the reader so little at times that i find myself having to read the page twice, and even then i do not get much from it. Turner is a somewhat interesting character but there's not enough meat there for me. Sallis' Lew Griffin stories which take place in New Orleans in the 60s are far better. Lew is an ex-collector for loan sharks who becomes a French Lit prof at Tulane and a practicing alcoholic. He's the thinking man to James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux. A bit like Thorn in James W Hall's Fla Key stories.
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