false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223645201m/119117.jpg 119117 12 What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because <i>somebody</i> has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new flats, new jobs, and their own telephone directory? These are the sort of truths that emerge in this collection of stories by one of England's most gifted writers.<br><br>In <b>The Quantity Theory of Insanity</b>, Will Self tips over the banal surfaces of everyday existence to uncover the hideous, the hilarious, and the bizarre. Psychiatry, anthropology, theology--and literature--will never be the same. 1146883 1991 The Quantity Theory of Insanity total:319|5:80|4:128|3:85|2:22|1:4| 319 1215 443 23 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:35:42 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 16:44:54 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 20:26:05 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 13:53:47 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 29 20:39:41 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 15:40:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 14 22:58:05 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 22 18:29:06 -0700 2008
but sadly, the other five stories are tryin...more...]]> 2 0 true false Fri Jun 05 07:11:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jan 07 15:07:13 -0800 2008 Fri Jun 05 07:11:13 -0700 2009 With the exception of the first short story, this is not the strongest work from Will Self I've seen. The dark realities of his other books are better captured in the l...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Nov 25 04:59:18 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 16:33:22 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Wed Sep 02 11:59:55 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 10:40:30 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 11:59:55 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Mar 16 12:41:51 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 17 10:37:39 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 24 10:19:42 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 28 12:09:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 21 18:48:04 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 18:49:26 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Wed Feb 06 15:51:34 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 15:52:35 -0800 2008 On the Road. I carried this thing around and reread parts all the time. I think it's probably time to go back and take another look.]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 20 03:40:37 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 04:20:53 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Wed Aug 22 00:33:01 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 22 01:44:39 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Wed Aug 27 13:25:18 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 13:25:49 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Thu Apr 03 04:41:34 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 04:43:23 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Feb 09 19:21:37 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 19:23:14 -0800 2008 "The cynics were correct the sense of freewill is only that feeling which we have when we take the necessiatated option that most appeals to us."]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 28 11:56:59 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 11:58:01 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sat Mar 03 16:25:05 -0800 2007 Sat Mar 03 18:44:49 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Sat Aug 25 23:34:33 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 00:02:13 -0700 2007 http://youtube.com/watch?v=djhBHxwAjVk]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 09:56:08 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 09:58:30 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=119117