These Violent Delights
A Novel
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These Violent Delights
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Berättare:
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Michael Crouch
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Micah Nemerever
A Literary Hub Best Book of Year • A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year • A Newsweek 25 Best Fall Books • A Philadelphia Inquirer 10 Big Books for the Fall • An O Magazine.com LGBTQ Books That Are Changing the Literary Landscape • An Electric Lit Most Anticipated Debut • A Paperback Paris Best New LGBTQ+ Books To Read This Year Selection • A Passport Best Book of the Month
The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever's compulsively readable debut novel—a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm.
Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.
As their friendship spirals into all-consuming intimacy, they each learn the lengths to which the other will go in order to stay together, their obsession ultimately hurtling them toward an act of irrevocable violence.
Unfolding with a propulsive ferocity, These Violent Delights is an exquisitely plotted excavation of the depths of human desire and the darkness it can bring forth in us.
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I can’t describe it very well, but I would advise anyone who is planning on reading this book, to be in a very stable mindset.
It took me almost have a year to get through this.
Incredibly well written, disgustingly real toxicity
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Keep in mind to inform yourself about the trigger-warnings in this book, because there is a lot of violence. And I'm not even speaking about physical violence (that as well, but not as much) but the thoughts of the main character.
Okay, in this book we have Paul und Julian who kinda fall in love with each other. I wouldn't call it love - it's more like dependency. Their relationship is very toxic but not in the ignorant, romanticizing way many book-relationships are. The toxicity is the main point in this book and it's very well done and thought-out.
What hits most are how realitic the thoughts are and how real the characters feel. I'm not sure if I'd recommend this book because of its violent topics. I mean, many books include violence but this is one of the rare books that actually picks violence out as a central theme.
If you choose to buy this audio-book, you should do it because you are interested in the concept of dependency and control or how fascination can lead to violence or maybe because you've heard about the Milgram-experiment. Please don't read it just for entertainment or because it's darc academia.
The narrator does a really great job. I cannot complain about anything.
In conclusion, I think the topics and concepts of this book are very interesting, the execution is so good (!), the characters feel real and we all can learn from it. You should just know that you won't live in a feel-good bubble with this book. I just wanted the characters to break up with each other because it was so so toxic that I couldn't stand it. Nevertheless this dependency (and self-hate) is an important topic, which the writer doesn't glorify.
Very intense, very toxic, very thought-out
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