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The Death Instinct (2010)

by Jed Rubenfeld(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594487820 (ISBN13: 9781594487828)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

series

Freud

review 1: This is the second of this series. And again my review is the same as before. I really don't like the main character. Frankly at several points in the book I would like to slap his face as his behavior is strange, unpredictable and without any real motive IMHO. The secondary character Jimmy Littlemore is far more interesting and well developed. I would prefer the author kill off Younger and have the series just about Littlemore. The background and history work of the time is excellent and I learn things in each book. The plots are fairly humdrum and predictable. I doubt I will bother reading anymore of this series. If you love Freud and analysis these are the books for you otherwise try someone else.
review 2: This book was at somewhat of a disadvantage after m... morey 26-year-old son raved about the plot - and specifically the deplorable conditions for a group of female factory workers (I won't say more to avoid a spoiler). So my expectations were high, and then that section was a very small part of the plot. Other sections of the plot seemed tedious at times, and again, that might be because of initial expectations. I liked the theoretical descriptions of a "death instinct" and would like to see that explored further in fiction set during our current time period. less

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