by Patrick McGrath
**I just unearthed this 5 year old review which didn't make the GR transition properly. This has been sitting on the bottom of a huge pile of books in my bedroom that topples over every time one of my dogs flops down for a nap. I'm getting sick of picking them up and will read them from the bottom...
I don't really have the energy to go too far in depth on this book, but I will say this: Sir Ian McKellen is the reason that I picked this up. Oh sure, Asylum has been on my reading list for ages. It's a book that seems to be either loved, or loathed, by consumers of Gothic fiction. I'm fairly certa...
At times this was tiresome, but on the whole an interesting, layered story.
Asylum is almost old fashioned. It has a Gothic ring to it and although it is set in 1959, the setting feels a bit older. The plot starts out as a strange love story. The wife of the superintendent of a mental asylum falls for a charismatic schizophrenic artist who is clearly dangerous for all invol...
This book packs a powerful punch for such a small book. The story of a wife of a psychiatrist's affair with one of his patients and her downward spiral as a result. I swear this book has been made into a movie and even that had packed a punch! Good reading. Final GR rating 3.5/5 Stars
Looking at the reviews, particularly Bark's and Paul's, I suspect that I'd be bored and uninterested.
Rating deleted. I can't in good conscience keep ratings for books by any of the 204 writers who signed the letter protesting the award for courage PEN gave to Charlie Hebdo. Such willful obtuseness by writers, of all people, toward freedom of expression is very troubling.
Argh, I could not put this damn book down. Read it and...enjoy isn't the right word. "Experience" it; how's that?
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