There's not much too add to the reviews below. Nobody Move is like Tarentino's Pulp Fiction in novel form. Fun, fast, witty, and violent. Nobody Move doesn't have the depth and resonance of many of DJ's other works, but it seems clear that this was more of a palate cleanser for DJ following the weighty Tree of Smoke. That said, I found Mary and Jimmy's struggle to find love on the run endearing as hell. Now that I think about it, it reminds me of Clarence and Alabama's adventures in the Tarantino-scripted True Romance. May I humbly suggest that True Romance replace Pulp Fiction as the Tarantino comparison of choice for Nobody Move? ( )

i hated everything about this, the characters, the story(if i can call it that), the narrator. i have no idea really what happened. a lot of dead people i think ( )

Nobody Move is the story of interconnected characters in the California desert. Jimmy Luntz is a gambler deep in the whole to his bookie, Gambol is the man sent to inflict physical harm to get the money, Juarez is the king of this underworld, and Anita Desilvera is an alcoholic and soon-to-be-divorced woman convicted of embezzlement who happens upon Jimmy. It's a motley cast of characters, and the cover's gunshots holes are a good indicator of the amount of violence.

Denis Johnson is a gifted writer; no one disputes this fact. The characters are intriguing, and there is suspense of sorts, but somehow it didn't all come together for me. Perhaps my own cynicism led me to believe their futures to be bleak and inevitable and I didn't fully embrace the characters. I usually adore noir, but I was ambivalent about this one. It's a brief book, less than 200 pages, and it seems to beg for a movie rather than a book. I wanted to like it more than I did, although I did enjoy reading it (except for one completely unnecessary, disgusting scene that would not have been out of place in a cheap teen comedy). ( )

Picked this up because the Oregonian review liked it. It is rather well done, but too violent for my taste. After winning the National Book Award for a large tome, Johnson did this as a 4-part serial in Playboy magazine. It's fast-paced, slick, funny, dark and violent. As a book qua book, it's quite wonderful. Both the back and front covers are full color portraits of characters in pixilated cartoon style. The book jacket is red and metallic and has bullet holes. I think the typography looks lovely, but I'm no expert on such. ( )

crime thug revenge ala reservoir dogs. Jimmy Luntz screws up and Gambol is sent to fix things for his employer-friend Juarez. Luntz shoots but only wounds Gambol. I guess he shoulda kilt him. The rest is pure thug. fun read. ( )