It's fortunate that literary heroin, or 'book smack' as we call it in the mean aisles of the campus library, is both less physically damaging than the powder form, and much less easy to use. And, I suppose, easier to score. Book smack can't be injected into your body and you just sit back and it doe...
Hubert Selby Jr.'s masterwork is just that: a masterwork. There are a range of joys to explore in this novel, including Selby Jr's use of style, his fragmented structure, his beautifully rendered characters who are often so fundemntally appalling and compelling at the same time. and the broken up mi...
I'm quite surprised that many readers regard it as a book about drug addiction and junkies of different types. I (as the title clearly states) mainly see it as an attempt of pursuing the American Dream, the one that grants all American citizens total and pure freedom. And so, since nobody really kno...
Ein wirklich ausgezeichnetes Buch. Zu lesen ist es anfangs etwas schwer, weil Selby nicht wirklich der englischen Grammatik und Rechtschreibung folgt, oder auch nur stilistisch eingebürgerter Satzzeichensetzung. Allerdings, wenn man die Eigenheit des Schreibstils erst einmal gewohnt ist, liest es si...
Fabulous book, sad and brutal. Scenes from the underside that are painful, rough and surely real. Excellent writing. I hadn't expected to like this much, but it was great. I will be happy to miss the movie. The imagining was enough.
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