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Loading... Live Flesh (1985)by Ruth Rendell
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  Amateria66 | May 24, 2024 |   We are placed on the head of a man filled with hate and anger. He it’s a serial rapist who shoots a policeman in the spine making him paraplegic. He goes to jail and then after release becomes acquainted with the policeman and his girlfriend. The protagonist isn’t grounded enough in reality to understand his situation and is self destructive. (  ) waldhaus1 | Oct 24, 2023 | ) nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 | Dialogue is in short supply here, and without lots of character exchanges, you don’t get to know them as intimately. That said, you do get to know the main character very well. I thought his intense phobia of reptiles was a nice touch. (  ) PhilSyphe | Mar 1, 2018 |  ) jayne_charles | Aug 29, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:From a New York Timesâ??bestselling author: A terrifying psychological thriller that dives deep into the mind of a sexual predator. In a remote corner of London, a woman is walking her dog when a man grabs her from behind. She screams, and her attacker flees, escaping into a nearby house, where he finds another victim. Victor Jenner has a compulsion he does not understandâ??to grab women, to hurt themâ??and he also has a gun. When it goes off, grievously wounding a police officer, it marks the beginning of a long stretch in jail for Victor. Released ten years later, Victor meets the young policeman he shotâ??and falls head over heels for the officer's girlfriend. Back on the street, Victor is torn between the desire to live a better life and the knowledge that he will soon give in to his most evil yearnings. The winner of three Edgar Awards, Ruth Rendell was one of the most celebrated thriller authors of the twentieth century. Live Flesh is "a superb work [and] a compelling psychological portrait" of a dark mind (Philadelphia Dail No library descriptions found. |
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I was a huge fan of the Almodovar film when I was in college so I had put off reading the Gold Dagger-winning novel till now simply because I thought I was familiar with the story. What a mistake! Notes From the Underground as a psychological thriller. As insular and horrific a mainstream suspense as I've read. Claustrophobic and disorienting. Remarkable. (