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Title: Despair, Depression, Complete Passivity
Review: I could not figure out how the writer spent 6-12 months of his life with a character who thought so little and did nothing. Lawrence's alcoholism didn't bother me, this bothered me: someone kills his dog and tries to kill him: he doesn't try to find out who did it, he tells no one, he barely thinks about it.And that's just the extreme example of his characteristic response to pretty much everything. It is as if Collins set himself the task to write a battered woman as a male cop and make the battered cop the hero of a "crime novel". And justify it with the "noir" tag. But I should qualify that: plenty of battered women show more spunk and initiative that our hero. All it is is a relatively un-insightful account on a man sliding into depression.
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