gun, with occasional music

This novel thus far, fits perfectly in the hard boiled detective genre. The main character Metcalf, is giving us a lot of detail and description throughout everything he does. It has, however, raised some questions. The issue with Karma, came up very early in the book and is still being discussed but has not been explained very well. I am starting to wonder when it is going to be since it seems very important. If I had to take a guess it seems like an ironic term to be used in a hard-boiled detective novel. I feel that the higher the Karma number you have the more chance you have of something happening to you that would to the reader seem, "ironic". I think it is going to be very interesting to see how this plays out throughout the rest of the novel.

There is another question that I started asking very early on in this novel. I am wondering what the importance of the names of different kind of make are. The words that are being used to me seem just like cognitives from a foreign language. They sound just like other words but are spelled just a little different and still mean the same thing. The words that are used such as Addictol, Believol, Regretol, and Forgettol. All of these words seem very important in depending on which character is using which ones. I think it will be very interesting again to see how these words play out in terms of importance to each character.