A.M. Homes
Paperback | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.6 | 6697 Users | 818 Reviews
Identify Regarding Books The End of Alice
| Title | : | The End of Alice |
| Author | : | A.M. Homes |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | February 18th 1997 by Scribner (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Horror. Contemporary. Mystery. Crime |
Explanation Toward Books The End of Alice
From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be ForgivenOnly a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal—and revel in—their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.
Particularize Books To The End of Alice
| Original Title: | The End of Alice |
| ISBN: | 0684827107 (ISBN13: 9780684827100) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Regarding Books The End of Alice
Ratings: 3.6 From 6697 Users | 818 ReviewsComment On Regarding Books The End of Alice
I had high hopes for this book, but I gave up on it quickly. The last straw was this little rant, over 400 words to describe boys eating snacks.If you like this type of verbal diarrhea, then this book is for you."Across the street, the feral pack joyously jams fistfuls of fried, dried, potato, corn frizzle-drizzle doo into their pubescenthence ever-hungrychops, cramming the orifice with far more than it can possibly hold. Chunks, giant crumbs of half-chewed food, fall over them like hail, likeThe obsession of Humbert Humbert, the sexual excesses of de Sade, and the twisted mind of a Hannibal Lecter. This book isn't for everyone, but if you can handle those things, it's quite a compelling read. Well written and an excellent execution of the unreliable narrator.
Ok, I get Lolita. I get American Psycho (even think it might be a work of genius). I don't get this one. Yet another exploration of the mindset of a truly sick fuck. Sections of this book are just gross beyond belief. Ok, it's well described (but I can't even say the prose uplifts or illuminates or sheds understanding in any way -- nor does anything stick because it's a phrase that just had to be written). The content though -- if you're looking for something that sickens you to the stomach,
I hate books like this. How to rate it? Should I rate it based on content? Because I tell you, there is some messed up stuff here and I in no way approve any of their actions. I feel like giving a high rating signals I'm okay with pedophiles, rapists, and murderers. I'm not. Just so we're on the same page. But I picked up this book knowing it was going to make me squeamish and uncomfortable. That was the point. To see through the eyes and with the feelings of a person of depraved moral
Ugh!!!!! Really really did not like this book. It made my skin crawl. I like A.M. Homes and I have enjoyed her other works but not this one! It is about a convicted child molester and murderer. There are explicit scenes of child sexual abuse. Not my cup of tea.
It's hard for me to give this book a proper review, mainly because it was hard for me to read. I'd like to say that the reason for this is because of the lurid and explicit detail the author goes into in telling the story of an incarcerated pedophile exchanging letters and depravities with a similarly minded young woman on the outside, and maybe that was part of it, certainly. However, more than anything else, aside from the graphic nature of the storyline and details therein, it's actually
0 Comments:
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.