Oddly, I kind of felt like this book would be grimier than it is. It’s still pretty grimy, but not as much as I thought. We begin this trilogy with our title character, Vernon Subutex, kind of coming to. He’s older middle-aged and has always been around the music scene, specifically as running a record shop for years. He’s well-known, not particularly well-liked, but has generally been in the mix of things. He’s not so much anymore. Upon waking up, among looking for enough money […]