The Best American Mystery Stories (2006) ~ Scott Turow (Editor)

Funk Rating: 4 out of 10

Well hello dear reader! It's been a long time since I last blogged a book. I can come up with 3 excuses:

1. I've had a bad string of lousy books (see below). Don't know about you, but when I've got a lousy book on the bedstand, I don't make much progress and things bog down...
2. I'm in the middle of about 5 books due to the above. I daresay there is a multiplicative effect when you have more than one lousy book on the nightstand.
3. My reading pace goes in phases and is correlated to airplane time. I haven't flown much in the past 6 weeks...

OK, enough excuses. And on to the blogging. This collection simply stunk. I'm prepared to say it's me, not the book, for the Amazonian reviewers seemed to like it. But, like most collections, I find I don't get into any kind of groove, the stories are too short to be fulfilling, and while every so often there will be a "whoa" moment, they are too far and few between.

So, for what it's worth, I can't even begin to recommend this one. The stories are just weird and weak...