>>>>>OK. The story is entertaining, a pageturner, but the prose and characterization are atrocious.
>>>>
>>>>You can say pretty much the same thing about a phone book :)
>>>
>>>Well maybe a Serbian one, with all those funny names, like Slobbyblobbydich and that,but not much entertainment in an ENGLISH book.
>>>
>>
>>Au contraire! Here are a few last names in the Chicago phone book, listed alphabetically.
>>
>>Bend 4
>>Brasseur 2
>>Bugger 1
>>Dick 13
>>Fuchs 16
>>Oral 1
>>Sex 1
>>Wanker 1
>>
>>If I were that last guy I would have changed my name to Jones a long time ago....
>
>So what, you'd be Jones Wanker?
>

The Chicago phone book also contains two entries for Richard Hertz.