Lush Life - Richard Price

I'm a huge fan of The Wire and I admire Price's work in the medium of TV and movie screenplays. My overwhelming thought while reading this was "I'd rather be watching a DVD".

A pointless and banal death in a robbery gone wrong sets course for 450 pages of socioeconomic description of Manhattan's Lower East Side. So much momentum is wasted on describing every minor character in precise socio-ethno-fashion terms that a new genre is created; the plotless thriller.