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At points, The Savage God becomes crushingly bleak.

Their reactions and emotions seem authentic.

'' Over the last few hundred years, the world has turned suicidal.

occasionally fascinating but probably hindered by the author's background of literary criticism, with much of the book examining suicide in literature spanning from the middle ages to the mid 20th century.

Pepper's analytical mind ticks constantly as his research takes him all over the country and unfolds a conspiracy involving much more than fractals and parallelograms.

Such a broad scope for such a short book can only mean a cursory and subjective reading, and it is indeed purely focused on the West, and largely centered around British poetry.

story, and the first thing you need is a good - no, a great protagonist.

Such a broad scope for such a short book can only mean a cursory and subjective reading, and it is indeed purely focused on the Sandwiched between two slices of personal recollection, the book is essentially a history of poetry as existentialism coming to know itself: through the prism of the changing artistic conceptions of suicide, and the puzzling meanderings of its reception, Alvarez paints in broad strokes the shifting self-image of the writer, starting in ancient times down to the sixties.

On the other hand it was nice that the investigation required the slow kind of detecting, such as comparing long lists and calling a ton of people, rather than unrealistic dramatic moments.

I have always been a logical thinker and even though I try to suppress it I have always love math so the thought of math being in This book was an amazing surprise.

They deliberately use suicide to create an unencumbered reality for themselves or to break through the patterns of obsession and necessity which they have unwittingly imposed on their lives.