Wednesday, 20 October 2010

"Freakish"

Could it be? Have I found a book that had me caught in ecstasy by the first sentences? I mean, really... I expected quite a bit of Sebastian Horsley’s unauthorized autobiography Dandy in the Underworld but seems to have left out the fact that even I can be surprised once in a while.

Who wouldn’t love a book starting as follows:

“When Mother found out she was pregnant with me she took an overdose. Father gave her the pills. She needed a drama from time to time to remind her that she was still alive. The overdose didn’t work. Had she known I would turn out like this she would have taken cyanide.”

What knowledge of the own person! What deep cynicism. How intreaging.

To be continued...

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