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Everyday Madness

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This story blew me away. I can't remeber the last time I read anything so honest or brutal. Definitely not for the fainthearted. There are so many things I could say about this book but I'd be here for hours and end up ruining it for the next reader who comes along. I'll just call it a Catcher in the Rye for adults and leave it at that.

Buy it, give a donation, download it, whatever. But read it. You wont be disappointed.

Drugs, madness, existential crises, random violence, and an oddly likable main character are the framework for this work. It's hard to know what's real here and what isn't, and in the end that isn't important. Readers of works such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the Bell Jar will have little trouble understanding this novel. The author has some things to say about the inhuman condition and he says them in an assured manner. The pacing is solid as the narrative moves from sordid to grisly to pathetic and back again repeatedly without flinching. The episodes of human tenderness only serve to highlight the strangeness. Gallows humor garnishes the whole. Recommended for the exceptional quality of the writing, the honesty of reportage, and for the superior antihero treatment.