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Title: Economic and Effective Writing
Review: Here we have yet another Scottish writer (cf. Iain Bank's "The Wasp Factory", Irvine Welsh's "Filth")who seems to have mastered the art of entering the head of a total psycho and writing about it all in a very unsensational offhand way so that the tension sneaks up on you. This is a very short and quick read, and I don't want to give anything away, but I'll just say that it's a pretty disturbing portrait of a man's decent into paranoia. BTW, there's lots of sex--much of it pretty unpleasant. Not everyone is going to like the ending, but I thought it was effective and the best resolution for all that preceded it. A good example of economic, yet evocative, writing.
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