Me and the Devil: A Novel
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Please try again later. Tosches proves once again here that he's one of the best writers of our generation, and his knowledge of everything from ancient semantics to upscale cuisine is impressive. He can write about the most venal and dreadful things, yet his amazing command of the language makes even those passages almost transcendent. Even though the plot of "Me and the Devil" is a little convoluted and slightly predictable and he has a propensity for name-dropping, these flaws are more than redeemed by the book's starkly confessional autobiographical tone.
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I've always found Tosches' extreme existential and philosophical perspectives and his unabashedly cynical world view incredibly fascinating. More yet, I heartily identify with it, though I'm not sure what that tells you about me. I initially chose Me and the Devil based on the cover art. It caught my attention as something that I would like and decided to pick it up. Initially, I loved the book.
Nick Tosches is a wordsmith and I felt that his gift of language really kept me going back. The way he described simple things like coffee and breakfast with such elegance was something that I talked about the next day. It was a bit twisted and highly sexual, which I didn't have a problem with. The book builds and builds and then about half way through it plateaued.
The second half was no where near as good as the first, and I was hoping for it to pick back up at some point but it really never did.
In this novel of sadomasochistic vampirism, an aging writer drinks blood to restore youth, vitality, and the urge to write. Nick is a misanthrope. Me and the Devil has ratings and reviews. A raw and blazing novel by "the single, most brain-searingly dangerous man of letters. Read him at your.
I would recommend this book based on the first half, because in my opinion it was that good. I wouldn't choose it if extremely vulgar language read: Also, if you are one that has to know the definition of every word and dont like reading with a dictionary, skip it. One person found this helpful.
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This book can't be reduced to a catch phrase Despite the gloomy predictions on the flap about a descent into Hell by the storyteller, I found the opposite to be true. This book is about life, and an unquenchable thirst for more of it.
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Some nasty parts along the way -- yes. Parts that I didn't like, and even had trouble with, But by the last pages, I realized that these too, were necessary.
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