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A review by lou1sb
A Walk Among the Tombstones by Lawrence Block
5.0
I'm trying to think of reasons to give this less than five stars. Because it was different to the movie? The movie added a bit, threw out one outdated computer subplot and added another, made TJ sickle-cell anemic. In the book TJ even jokes 'if this was a movie then...' and then he does it in the movie! Layers of meaning!
Another possible reason to lop off a star is the image I have of body parts being removed with various sharp objects. Less layers of meaning there, but there's some.
When I realised the book was set in 1992 I got excited because I thought Lawrence Block predicted Y2K, but I think it's easier to just say "the internet" rather than explain how he found everything. Kids these days never seen a payphone.
Another possible reason to lop off a star is the image I have of body parts being removed with various sharp objects. Less layers of meaning there, but there's some.
When I realised the book was set in 1992 I got excited because I thought Lawrence Block predicted Y2K, but I think it's easier to just say "the internet" rather than explain how he found everything. Kids these days never seen a payphone.