Misery

Awesome and extremely deep. It had me hooked from the first page. With multiple call backs to childhood moments like being sad over the Zoo bird that will never reach Africa again, or the pint that only comes back under low tide, and a beautifully sad showing of his slow mental decline into suicidalness and learned helplessness as he eventual don't even try to yell for help even if he can. And really well shows his ptsd with flashbacks floating into reality too. It also does a pretty good job of showing her mental swings and mano depressive thought of wanting to help through killing them both, but stopping for wanting to read the book before she does it, and really well showing her swinging between sweet kindness of cakes and such, and awful horrid moments like burrowing her fingers through the flesh of a rat, chopping off the main characters body parts and such. It is extremely gorey and at some points very disgusting with details even describing the scent of burning human flesh or someone's eyes before they get driven over by a lawnmower and the mess left behind. So, quite a warning, not for the light hearted, it's almost on the level of "Tender is the flesh"-a book about canibalism and the way of butchering a human, a book wich imagery has never left my mind since the first time I read it. It is very suspenseful, yet it has the steady comforting calm of old stories that creates long introspective moments where the horror, mental decline, and dread truly perfectly seeps through. It is in third form, or he form, but it truly feels like first form, I form, thanks to the immense depth and the partial stream of consciousness style. Also, it has a tendency to describe non rape moments like rape, like the main character almost dying in the beginning and then describing being raped with his captors lips pushing air into his lungs as she tries to revive him. It's ending is gorgeously tragic, even if he has escaped, his mind is still locked in the room he was so stuck in, still seeing her shadow in every corner. It left me terrified and disgusted by the fact that I wanted more. It is brutal and gut wrenchingly raw, yet beautiful in its morbidity.

Mesterværk.