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This was a captivating exploration into the darker corners of the human mind. Selby's stream-of-consciousness was, as always, very well done.

The narrator was incredibly unreliable, but also incredibly relatable. His mantras of "Some screwy thing is always happening to me" and "What do they want from me?" is pretty much how I first felt when I entered adulthood and was faced with the corrupt, blood-sucking system that governs the supposedly free world. The guy in this book is furious at his captors, his life, everything, and his rage is completely understandable. It's no wonder The New York Times Book Review said that "to understand [Selby's] work is to understand the anguish of America."