In All the Devils there is definitely at least a hint of a kind of misanthropy showing at times... it wouldn't take much of a stretch to see it changing into viciousness.
Yeah that was what I was alluding to. You said he was mean about the victims in that book, I can well imagine that the guy who wrote All the Devils could have that in him.... especially a few years of limited success down the line....
nice listGot a load of books recently,
Cities of the Red Night, Burroughs.
Concrete Island, Ballard.
High-Rise, Ballard.
Buda's Wagon, Mike Davis.
Chaos, Gleick.
American Tabloid, Ellroy.
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy, Deleuze.
The Adding Machine, Burroughs.
Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener.
Finnegans Wake, Joyce.
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, De Landa.
Running Dog, DeLillo.
Expelled from Eden, Vollmann.
Also just ordered,
Invisible Man, Ellison.
Spinal Catastrophism, Moynihan.
Dispatches, Herr.
The Atrocity Exhibition, Ballard.
The Drowned World, Ballard.
Mythologies, Barthes.
Imperial, Vollmann.
The final chapter mentions Simon Raven briefly, another you might enjoy if you haven't read him.Read David Seabrook's All The Devils today - thoroughly engrossing. The last few pages, the episode in the pub, made me wonder if he had had an unpleasant experience as a kid which could account for the misanthropic attitude he displayed later in life... the seeds of Jack of Jumps are sown in this book, but the latter goes into far more detail about the Jack the Stripper murders, and also Freddie Mills and his clip joint ( obviously, as its about the murders), but is far more bitter in tone. The final chapter prompted me to order Kenneth Williams' diaries... I must be thirsty for more catty gossip...
Just got this out the library as part of my unofficial curriculum of Russian studies. I'm telling myself I need to finish Anna Karenina before I start it though. I have wanted to read it for years.got a bunch of new books ill have to read now
Alexander Solschenizyn, the Archiple Gulag