David Miller loses his wallet in a bar one night after taking a woman for a drink. This might be the least of his problems though as he's tying to extricate himself from his relationship with Rebecca, a vapid party girl running up debt on his credit cards, and dealing with the fairly recent death of his sister that cost him his job with the Wall Street Journal. Things start looking up though when he gets a call that his wallet has been found...This one was recently mentioned on Writer Types as a...

Can't lie this book took me by suprise. I did not like the protagonist during the entire book. I also started to dislike the author. Once I read the last line, I fell love with Jason Starr's demented style. Love this man!

Twisted City by Jason Starr (2004)...Killer Neo-Noir!!!! A journalist is obsessing over his dead sister and all goes from bad to horrible like all good noir should...I read it two evenings...A MUST READ! 5.0 outta 5.0.

Having finished Cold Caller a couple months ago, I had a strong feeling of deja vu throughout Twisted City. By itself, it's excellent, but the many similarities made me want to rate it at 2 or 3 stars as the story was about to end. I'll have to give it to Starr though, I did not expect the twist at the very end. Well played, sir, well played.

After several false starts, I was finally able to finish a Jason Starr novel. The results are about what I expected.Jim Thompson, whom Starr is no doubt cribbing from here, is one of my favorite writers. He writes psychological thrillers in which characters are forced into difficult circumstances that are largely beyond their control and all of their choices are bad. No one is better at identifying the dark heart of chaos beneath what we as humans pass for order.Starr is no Thompson but this is

About great sex of a thirtyfive year old journalist with a twentyfour year old modern dancer from Texas in New York City in the year 2005, the protagonist had lost his wallet with the credit cards to a pick pocket, the young woman could pay with favours she enjoyed.

Totally unbelievable. The plot must have been made up by a 12 year old.

I enjoyed reading this short novel, mainly because of the setting - the New York City of the 1990s where I lived for about seven years. The author does a nice job of capturing the feel of that place and time. It's a contemporary noir tale where the narrator's life just keeps going from bad to worse. It's really quite a wacky story, and what's revealed at the ending is disturbing if not entirely surprising. Overall a fun read but a bit thin.

It was a fast read, packed with tons of drama. The main character, David, couldn't seem to catch a break. Very strange ending.

This book was so frustrating! And what a WEIRD ending!

Jason Starr is perhaps the best writer of modern white collar noir I've come across. His stories are laced with an undercurrent of vehemence that steams from normalcy ever so delicately nurtured to noir. TWISTED CITY (published 2004) is everything I'd come to expect from a Jason Starr and then some. Early on Starr plants the seeds that something is a little off about the character lead in David Miller, a journalist for a financial magazine who is still mourning the death of his sister some time

I can't believe I read this whole book. This character was totally unbelievable and I had no patience with him or his situation. I've read plenty of books in which the characters lives went completely downhill, all the way to the bottom, and I developed sympathy and understanding for them. But this guy made one stupid, unlikely decision after another which required a complete suspension of belief. The ending was fitting, and my own punishment for reading the book all the way to the end.

OK, I accepted the "weird" ending on the first three of Starr's books that I read but I think the ending on this one is the weirdest of all of them. I'm sure that Starr has a purpose in doing this, who knows, maybe it's his trademark, his signature. For some reason though the books are compelling and I would not discourage others from reading them.I "Twisted City" David Miller is a writing for a business magazine and he is eventually promoted to associate editor though I'm not sure if that reall...

This is a masterpiece. The story is told so well. Even though fantastical events happen to the narrator, all of it is told in a controlled and believable fashion. There is not one scene that was poorly done or over the top.The author does such a good job of showing how someone, who on the surface appears to be normal, gets caught up in events that make it worse and worse for him.And the ending is a stunning ending where you begin to question everything you thought you knew about the main charact...

I didn't get it. The book started off with him being a boring average guy getting into some trouble, which started off good but just after half way I started noticing the weirdness, he kept referring to women as a 'plain' but having a 'they will do' kind of attitude and noticing all their flaws. But there was not really an indication at the beginning of the book. The ending surprised me but didn't really tie up the book for me. At first his feels towards his sister seemed normal for a grieving a...

I'm thinking of adding this term to urbandictionary.com. Bel Canto : Inspired by the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award winning novel. To ruin an otherwise fine book with an out of left-field last chapter; to jack on one last unneeded chapter to a book causing the internal stability of the book/narrative to collapse on itself.Example: Dude, Twisted City, totally Bel Cantoed!The last chapter was great and all, but it didn't fit in this book. I would have liked to read more of what was going on in that ch...

Twisted City by Jason Starr - Twisted City is a twisted book, although you might not realize it right away. I loved the premise for this story - very original. The story itself was pretty cool too; wasn't so predictable like so many books. The ending left me scratching my head for a minute, but then that is part of why I liked it too.

Every time I read a Starr novel I'm almost grateful that I don't have a sixteen-fifty a month apartment in the Big Apple or work in advertising or for a business journal. Twisted City is no different. A slim 242 pages, Starr's novel is about a man who loses his wallet at a bar and from there gets entangled with dope fiends, a girlfriend who has way more baggage than she leads on, and the police. Nearing the end of the novel I wasn't sure as to why Starr called this novel Twisted City, but the la...

This is my jam!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!

HOLY BABY JESUS! o_O WTF WAS THIS?First of all, I have to say that this is the first book I've read by Jason Starr (read it in German) and also the first time I'm reading this genre. I was amazed, yet disappointed at the same time. I was bored/frustrated, yet in some scenes so into it and carefully following up, wanting some kind of a BIG HAPPENING other than the sudden killing.I was thinking the whole time "there's something twisted about this main character? Why isn't J. Starr not clarifying,