Hatters Castle (Bello)

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A non-stop journey through heart-wrenching misery. A study in anger.

A masterpiece of a novel. A must read for any psychologist.

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Highly recommend it for people who are willing to learn about dinamics of disfunctional families across generations. Written beautifully on the topic of life from which the only escape is death. Some people manage to create such lives for their closest ones, without meaning to. Just because th Was scared and rescared, depressed and redepressed by this novel many times. Just because they 'know better'. I read this while being thoroughly depressed as a teen don't try this at home!

Even though I should have paid more attention to some of the things in here, at the time. I have never been able to forget this book. View all 7 comments. Cronin wrote and destroyed his firsts drafts of this story while working on it. Finally in Hatter's Castle , Cronin's first novel, was published. Meet the Brodie family: In the story we see how the family is broken and destroyed by the tyrannical Brodie.

The book is available for free here http: And the feeling of being angered, compared to other feelings I've got from reading books up to now, is still awesome as hell! I don't know what character I hate the most: James Brodie himself, his wife or his son - Matthew Brodie. First up, James Brodie - "the star" of the novel. He was an extremely delusional man that I think psychologists around the world may feel hopeless when trying to treat him! Not only he was ridiculously stupid in his own business "using" his arrogance and rude attitude to chase away his already few customers while there was a big competitors just right next door of his shop???

God please help this man! There were more bad things about this character that it's not practical for me to write down all it would take me till next week! I couldn't imagine that kind of man exist in real life nowadays, because if he is, I will kill him with my own hand without any guilt before he goes on and destroys other lives! Now come to James Brodie's wife, whose name I later knew as Margaret, a very devoting, hard-working, but also mentally weak woman, who obeyed every single order from her beloved rotten husband, and didn't fight for her pregnant daughter Mary when she was thrown out of the house.

She loved Matthew most, but the way she showed her love and her care for her son just ruined his attitude as a grown up man, which led to him pretending to have strong attitude against his father, but whenever there was his father around, he talked like a little scared puppy. And not to mentioned how spoiled he was, spending all of the money that his mom worked her ass off and was indebted to other people to have on drinking and girl-playing!

It's good to see him finally left the house for good with that Nancy whore who was the center of the sexual dreams of his father! What brings the edge for this novel, and a bravo from me to the author who created those characters, that although it was shocking to see many people be destroyed by James Brodie's delusional belief and attitude, while some other suffered from the actions and intentions of other characters including Brodie himself , we can see those kind of characters everywhere.

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They were not impractically created, on the contrary, those kinds of models live everywhere among us: And that's what scared me the most while reading this novel, which I though brought out the wonderfulness of it, and kept me reading pages after pages non-stop. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. View all 6 comments. Aug 02, Andrea rated it it was amazing. This book definitely captures the turmoil uf a dysfunctional family, whose members are slowly destroyed by the singular ambition of the head of the family: Basically,this book is about loss: The characters are all tormented in their own way,and yet they choose to rather turn a blind eye to their problems instead of trying to fix them.

There is no This book definitely captures the turmoil uf a dysfunctional family, whose members are slowly destroyed by the singular ambition of the head of the family: There is no such thing as hope for the members of this family. There is only regret,fear and sadness.

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Every significant moment is hidden by a bitter-sweet cover,and the ending,although quite predictable will still leave you with a slightly hopeless feeling,that may turn your stomach a bit and make you question what is really important in life and what are our true expectations. Dec 09, Caroline Cairn rated it it was amazing Shelves: I read this book a looong time ago, so although the storyline is now a bit fuzzy in my head, I still remember the heart wrenching, tear jerker scenes in it.

There are a lot. They come one after the other, relentlessly, but as you never expect them to happen, the sorrow in them is always ever so raw. Nessie secretly writes to Mary asking her to come back, so she will have her company and comfort. Under pretext of coming to help with housework, Mary writes to her father, who initially refuses her return.

After discovering that Nancy has deserted him, he writes again permitting Mary to come back, so she does. Nessie obtains notice of the Latta result before her father sees it. Finding that her rival has won it and fearing her father, she sends Mary out to the chemist on the pretext of getting some medicine, then dresses up and hangs herself.

The story concludes with Dr. Renwick, who has been seeing Mary, taking her away with him to marry her. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the novel.

Hatter's Castle

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