Books - What are you reading?

This is next up for me. Been curious about Wilson ever since I heard the great MES bark "This is where C. Wilson wrote 'Ritual In The Dark'", in The Fall's superlative track, 'Deer Park'. Found that my dad has a few of his books in his study, and this one is right up my khyber. Fascinated that monsters are no less than men. Just mundane men. This is a study on what makes them so. Looking forward to getting stuck in.

Ploughed through this puppy. Nothing short of a revelation. It's really a polemic on the human condition, viewed through our capabilities for heinous crime. Interesting theory as to the struggle over the split hemispheres of the brain which dictate our characteristics, which Wilson asserts we can better control. Not a defeatist book at all, despite it being full of shocking violence. Very well researched and plainly written, despite discussions on psychoanalysis/philosophy. A fundamental work, and now one of my very favourite books.

As is this, which I'm about to finish. Despite buying it years ago I've never finished it. Novels aren't my thing and I've tried several times to reach the end but I've cracked it this time. No slur on the book, it's me that's at fault. An original premise told imaginatively and assuredly, with a huge dollop of pathological weirdness. It's been a personal crusade waiting to find the time when I feel ready to dig further into this than I have before, and it seems like now is the time. I can't imagine how it's going to end, which is testament to its originality. This book has had an odd grip on me for a very long time, which I'm about to relinquish.