I want to read this (again) but the first try didn't hit me. I just don't get this feelings when I'm reading this one. It's not that impactful on my part.

Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. Unfortunately it was not for me. I’ve attempted it on a number of occasions and have been unable to get into it.

I don't like noir fiction, and I don't like prose that relies heavily on alliteration. It's not you, book, it's me.

Classic. This book was amazing and unusual on its own way. I was a bit surprised at first cause it was my first time after a long time reading a novel in a poetic verse.

Mr Either/Or is noir fiction in prose form. Every couplet a rhyme and every piece of violence and drama to the pattern of prose. It’s a different approach to a traditional story of hired gun gets into a job that is slightly stranger than expected and that of course goes wrong. It’s definitely not something that the genre has seen often before, even if it wanted to.
The story is the basic one of a job going wrong and our hero Mr Either/Or having to spend the entire book trying to get things right, it’s not terribly original. However, the style is actually as important as the substance here as the approach is so different to what is normally written that it takes time to adjust. And it just about works. At times you can lose the sense of what is going on in the prose and words but the style and poetry lend itself surprisingly well to a fast paced noir thriller where every corner holds another problem and every person is a hurdle. At times the whole thing feels a bit stretched thin and becomes tiresome. However, the action scenes in particular work very well in prose and bring more colour to what would normally just be a gun fight or a chase. It’s a breathless read that is full of promise, fresh and welcome.

Mr. Either/Or is something completely different in format, tone, and presentation. While it is a gritty pulp story about magic and detectives and spies and gangs, it is presented in the form of extended sometimes rhyming alliterative prose. It is in that sense more like Allen Ginsberg's Howl or Jim Morrison's Celebration of the Lizard than anything a crime fiction reader is used to reading. It is more of an extended rap on crime fiction. There is a story that you can follow, but it plays a secondary role to the tone and the rhythm and the phrases. I found it rather interesting and clever, but I am not sure I would want a steady diet of such prose.