That was my first book of his I read as well, back in college when I was taking a true crime class. My school had great English electives that I kept taking for fun and it set me back a year because I didn’t have anybody smart to tell me that they didn’t get me any closer to graduating.
I had been using another name that expressed gratitude in the affirmative, decided to change it up to a name that is more for saying no politely.