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Nothing to See Here
The chronicle of one man¿s descent into the world of borderline psychosis mimics with increasing fury the delusional world of his own patients. It¿s a frightening, real and utterly gripping thriller by highly touted first novelist David Post.
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 2005
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October 1, 2019
What a page-turner. I read this book like I was running a sprint. There are a handful of characters that are fabulously presented in technicolor detail. David Post creates characters with an almost surgical precision. Characters that I could personally relate to at a level that was almost scary sometimes. He has a great knack for getting into the heads of his characters, making them real, contradictory and unpredictable; without which a story is just a plain story.
The main protagonist Alan Sarnower, is a Psychiatrist who is slowly losing his sanity to the crazy behavior and neurosis of his very troubled wife. A wife who has some very serious problems, that she chooses to ignore and take responsibility for. Add to the mix Mitch, their 12 year old son on the cusp of adolecense and the mix becomes volatile and eventually uncontrollable. The three of them together is a vortex of infinite hurt and hostility. Like being in a room filled with people from your entire life that you can't stand.
What makes this story such a tornado is that by turn the vast majority of the characters demonstrate the worst sides and traits of the human condition. You can see from a mile away what they are walking into; where their lives are going to end up based on not having the intuition or the illumination of thought to avoid the pitfalls. I've been guilty of some of these things myself. It's hard to watch people walking towards a land mine and more than likely stepping on it.
The dialogue in this book, particularly as Alan descends into the Rabbit Hole at a faster and faster velocity, is almost painful to read. I didn't want to be privy to someone, even a character in a story, thinking one thing about someone, or some situation, but acting and speaking on an entirely different plane. I think what made this difficult is to acknowledge that we all do it. And we probably do it more often than we care to admit. It's like living in two different worlds, the inner and the outer. I felt a major disquiet in my gut as I was reading, seeing people and the context of their lives, being depicted in two different, but parallel fashions.
This book is solid through and through. From the opening page, I knew that I was going to be getting an E Ticket ride.
The only thing I'm sorry about is that the story had to end. Gripping to the last. The last chapter or two in particular will keep you locked in to its final conclusion.
The main protagonist Alan Sarnower, is a Psychiatrist who is slowly losing his sanity to the crazy behavior and neurosis of his very troubled wife. A wife who has some very serious problems, that she chooses to ignore and take responsibility for. Add to the mix Mitch, their 12 year old son on the cusp of adolecense and the mix becomes volatile and eventually uncontrollable. The three of them together is a vortex of infinite hurt and hostility. Like being in a room filled with people from your entire life that you can't stand.
What makes this story such a tornado is that by turn the vast majority of the characters demonstrate the worst sides and traits of the human condition. You can see from a mile away what they are walking into; where their lives are going to end up based on not having the intuition or the illumination of thought to avoid the pitfalls. I've been guilty of some of these things myself. It's hard to watch people walking towards a land mine and more than likely stepping on it.
The dialogue in this book, particularly as Alan descends into the Rabbit Hole at a faster and faster velocity, is almost painful to read. I didn't want to be privy to someone, even a character in a story, thinking one thing about someone, or some situation, but acting and speaking on an entirely different plane. I think what made this difficult is to acknowledge that we all do it. And we probably do it more often than we care to admit. It's like living in two different worlds, the inner and the outer. I felt a major disquiet in my gut as I was reading, seeing people and the context of their lives, being depicted in two different, but parallel fashions.
This book is solid through and through. From the opening page, I knew that I was going to be getting an E Ticket ride.
The only thing I'm sorry about is that the story had to end. Gripping to the last. The last chapter or two in particular will keep you locked in to its final conclusion.
July 2, 2010
based in boston, was interesting...but hate when they throw a porn scene into a reasonably ok mystery. ukk.
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