Literary Review with Cookie Monster: Nobody Move by Denis Johnson

OK, me welcome you to new addition to Wally Donuts blog. Is review of bookie with Monster of Cookie! Ha! Ha! Me like to rhyme, some of the time. Here me talk about pros and cons of different books me read. Me actually highly literate and well read for a monster, and me almost like books as much as me like cookie!

Me first choice for blog is book called Nobody Move by Denis Johnson. Me not know too much about Mr Johnson except his name also slang for me big blue penis. Anyway, Mr Johnson he written very cool crime fiction novel with noirish feel. 

Blurb on cover by Lionel Shriver say: “Think Reservoir Dogs or Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. Think Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy.”

Me think: Ignore blurb on cover by Lionel Shriver. Me think Lionel Shriver throw names around like food fight and see what sticks. Poor Lionel, she have boy’s name and thus very confused about everything. This book nothing like Tarantino film, or Raymond Chandler or James Ellroy.

Me no like Raymond Chandler anyway me prefer Dashiell Hammett, and me is reminded of quote by none other than James Ellroy: 'Chandler wrote the man he wanted to be - gallant and with a lively satirist's wit. Hammett wrote the man he feared he might be - tenuous and sceptical in all human dealings, corruptible and addicted to violent intrigue.'

Anyway, me digress.

To be fair to Lionel, me say Nobody Move at least a little bit like No Country for Old Men. Features cat and mouse scenario across the empty American landscape with hapless protagonist chased by some very bad guys. But no Javier Bardem with salad bowl haircut. A shame because me like Javier Bardem.

But Mr Johnson he make Cormac look like Dr Seuss, which is no easy task me can assure you. He make book like All The Pretty Horses look like My Little Pony. Ha! This book Nobody Move is tough as nails, or even three day old cookie, and me like it very much. 

Me like the sparse but clever prose and me like the sense of dread that pervades the book from start to finish. 

Me like also the grizzly swagger of sentences like ‘Ruthless neon on the wet street like busted candy’.

Me think this is book for reader who like serious crime fiction, not low rent stuff me see for sale at supermarket when me go to buy me cookies. So in conclusion, me give this book 4 cookies out of 5. Me have to deduct one cookie because me was slightly let down by ending.