I usually converse in my head with the author...

When I read a book. I told my mother-in-law I was reading this, then I read a certain chapter. I would not critique this publicly, Other than I am glad the action, dark and graphic, has moments of ludicrous fantasy, otherwise I would not have made it through the chapter.
The fillers? Pages? Evidence? Between the chapters, the ones with the infamous 1980s tax-writeoff Canadian film productions, impressive, and gutbustingly accurate.