Almost, but not quite...

Rating: 4/10 (30 September 2000)

First off, I haven't read the book, so I can only judge it on its own merits (arguably a good thing). I took it to be a dark comedy satirizing both the 80's Yuppie lifestyle and the serial killer movie genre. It could have gone two ways, into a sharp, biting satire (like, say, "The Player") or into a more disturbed, unsettling comedy (like "Parents"). Sadly, it floundered somewhere in the middle and delivered neither a rewarding comedy nor an involving psychological thriller. All the same, it had some fine comedic moments and elements like the detective were particularly refreshing.