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A review by efbeckett
The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford
4.0
Love these meandering crime/domestic novels, very bummed that there aren't any more.
Here's my problem, unrelated to the actual book, maybe someone else can help me: I have the Vintage/Black Lizard edition. The final chapter is two pages long and the text runs all the way to the bottom of the second page, bam - end of book. The last sentence is complete, and I can see how it works fine as the end of the book, but it also feels like something's missing (I know, a fifth book). The last sentence ends "... because you can't!" Is there more to it and I'm missing some pages, or is that it? Goodreads says this edition is 256 pages, what I have is 245. I've seen incorrect page counts in Goodreads, so this may mean nothing (some Goodreads page counts seem to add the unnumbered pages at the beginning to the total count which, as someone who catalogues library books for a living, makes me insane).
Here's my problem, unrelated to the actual book, maybe someone else can help me: I have the Vintage/Black Lizard edition. The final chapter is two pages long and the text runs all the way to the bottom of the second page, bam - end of book. The last sentence is complete, and I can see how it works fine as the end of the book, but it also feels like something's missing (I know, a fifth book). The last sentence ends "... because you can't!" Is there more to it and I'm missing some pages, or is that it? Goodreads says this edition is 256 pages, what I have is 245. I've seen incorrect page counts in Goodreads, so this may mean nothing (some Goodreads page counts seem to add the unnumbered pages at the beginning to the total count which, as someone who catalogues library books for a living, makes me insane).