Lowest Circle of Hell (The Eyes - Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta)

Member Name: amygdala

Product:	The Eyes - Jesus Ignacio Aldapuerta
Date:	15/06/00 (106 review reads)
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Advantages: When he was writing this, he wasn't up to anything else.

Disadvantages: May attract the wrong kind of people.

Someone once said this book couldn't have been written by a psychopath because psychopaths don't have much artistic talent -- he cited Charles Manson's musical maunderings as a case in point. Well, maybe. There aren't that many psychopaths in the world, and there aren't that many people with much artistic talent, so maybe the combination of the two is very rare.

But whether or not Aldapuerta himself was a psychopath, it's certainly possible that psychopaths will enjoy this book. It's dark -- very dark -- and you're recommended not to read it too soon before or too soon after a meal. Cannibalism, mutilation, necrophilia, war-tourism all combine in prose that goes beyond de Sade in some ways. Sade's descriptions are hard to visualize; these often aren't. That may be an advantage or may not: it's up to you.

You have been warned.

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