This novel was like a car packed with high explosives and driven into the middle of American literature and left there to explode in a fireball of nitroglycerine sentences containing jagged ugly words which could shear your mind in two. I can't believe how powerful it still is, I read it years ag...
First, let me start out by saying that there are aspects of Waiting Period that are definitely admirable, even if, all in all, the novel doesn't quite work. Selby Jr. is a master at creating characters whose heads you can get right into, and who can likewise get back into yours. When the narrat...
I have previously read four of Selby Jr's novels, the last in 2009, but was spurred to return to his writing when I saw one of my GR friends reading 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'. I started with this one simply because it was the first to arrive through my letterbox after ordering. Published in 1972, i...
(originally published at talesfromideath.blogspot.com)Before I get into this review, I should mention that I won this book in a giveaway from the BookFox over on youtube. So head on over there and check out some of her videos. I should probably also mention that she was giving this book away beca...
داستان‌هایی پر از دیوانگی! دیوانگانی که به جامعه انضباطیِ آسایشگاه‌روانی هدایت می‌شوند توسط جامعه کنترلی. جامعه‌ای که هرکس در آن نقشی دارد (باید نقشی داشته باشد!)، نقش پدر، کارمند (کارگر)، فرزند، نقش کنترلگر در جامعه کنترلی!تمامیت این جامعه کنترلی منجر به چیزی به اسم بیماری‌های روانی می‌شود، لاز...
First of all, many thanks to NetGalley and Open Road Integrated Media who gave me the opportunity to read this novel recently. To be perfectly honest, when I first started it, I wasn't sure if I was going to continue but I was determined to give it a fair shot, and I'm really glad I did, as by ab...
THUNDER'S MOUTH PRESS NEW YORK This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure-- Faith in a Loving God. Preface © 2000 by Hubert Selby, Jr. Foreword © 2000 by Darren Aronofsky Foreword © 1988 by Richard Price Copyright © 1978, 1988 by Hubert Selby, Jr. All righ...