THE KILLER INSIDE ME (Jim Thompson) - March 6/10

This book started out fairly well, with its gritty sensibilities and unflinching violence. But the pervasively meandering storyline eventually grew oppressive, and I had to struggle to finish the last 50 or 60 pages. This might've worked as a short story, but as a 200+ page novel, it's nothing less than an interminable disaster. ** out of ****