I'd heard of these books over the years and since it was a cheap download ($2.99 I believe) I figured I'd give it a shot. When I first got my Nook back in September one of the first books I downloaded was Smith's Night of the Crabs which was the first in the series. Those old covers of his work definitely ARE worth collecting on the cheap just cause they look so cool on the shelf. Then, invariably, I'd spot another book of his a couple of years down the line whose premise would catch my interest & I'd hope that I'd be able to "get into" this one. ) would become exercises in tedium for me that I'd get bogged down in midway through. What should have been fun, quick reads ( & WERE for so many others. No matter how cool his ideas were & how shocking the events, his prose made them rather dull & his inability to create characters that I cared for in the least made it a chore to get through his novels. Unfortunately, to me anyhow, Smith's work was the exception. Of which, so many were audaciously entertaining. His fans are legion in the UK & his titles & plotlines are pretty much perfect examples of that wonderful period sub-genre of paperback originals the "British nasties". Every last one of those that I've gotten my hands on over the years.
It's all SO promising in theory, but disappointingly bland upon delivery.
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