The Diary of a Rapist

Probably not the best title to choose if you wanted to have a best seller, I don’t know how it would have been received in the 60’s when it was written but you would have to be in possession of a lot of self assurance to read this in public. The title itself has shock value but is perhaps misleading.......more

Wow. This was a damn good book. Disturbing? Yes. Frightening? Abso-fucking-lutely. Unnerving and breathtaking? You bet. But this has got to be the most daring, bold, courageous book I have ever read. Published in 1966, Connell took an enormous chance publishing this creepy, unorthodox story about a......more

Evan S. Connell is a genius. Brutal, bleak, funny and brilliant, this disturbing novel exquisitely captures a certain strain of masculine self-loathing and misogyny, just this perfectly calibrated depiction of the kind of man who is absolutely twisted and destroyed by his own sour self-regard and ha......more

My god, I am a sucker for depictions of madness, and Earl Summerfield runs the gamut of many ways human madness can express itself. This is not the tale of someone descending into madness. It is the tale of a full-bore madman from the very beginning. I generally do not read reviews of books before I......more

This book is amazing. Oh my god, this thing scared the hell out of me. It's a beautiful testament to the struggle and strife that everyone feels. We are all capable of this kind of violence and hatred. You find yourself in Earl and you just seem to understand where he is going. You dont like it, you......more