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1.0 out of 5 stars Why is "Asylum" so praised?, Sep 2 2003
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This review is from: Asylum (Paperback)
Having never read Patrick McGrath before, I decided to buy "Asylum" based on the positive reviews here and after seeing the terrific film based on his book "Spider". I do not usually write reviews but I felt I had to balance the praise this book has received. The detached narration does not allow you to connect to any character, let alone understand their motivation through the ridiculas plot turns. It is a novel less about "obsession" than it is about stupidity. If you were looking for a "gothic thriller", leave this book behind - it reads more like a supermarket romance novel.
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1.0 out of 5 stars HORRID but not horror, Aug 4 2003
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I agree with all the other one and two star reviews.
Just adding my one star to the pot.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very unique book, Jun 1 2003
By Juan Bwon Jovi (Prague, CZ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Asylum (Paperback)
This book is dark, but what I like about it is that it doesn't seem to fill any cliche's. I am easily turned off by books like this once they delve into certain, overdone areas. This book is briliantly written and has a tone of stark maturity throughout. It is a joy to read as much as to behold the plot. This is the firt book I have read by McGrath. I will read more. He knows how to reveal human horror and cruelty in a very lucid manner. This book stands out.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Tragic Story, Beautiful Writing
"Asylum" was my first Patrick McGrath novel and it's so good it's definitely turned me into a total "McGrath junkie. Read more
Published on Oct 29 2003 by Patrick O'Brien

5.0 out of 5 stars Very intelligent gothic
This is the most subtly layered of all of McGrath's books. I like them all -- I love his gothic style and deadpan humor. Read more
Published on April 19 2003 by Oldant

5.0 out of 5 stars A Hellish Marriage is the Real Asylum
A psychiatrist narrator recounts how his "friends" (we begin to wonder the narrator's true motives as the novel moves along), fellow psychiatrist Max and Max's wife Stella, suffer... Read more
Published on Feb 16 2003 by M. JEFFREY MCMAHON

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I've read in months
Why on earth would a beautiful, intelligent woman -- the wife of a psychiatrist no less -- risk everything for a feral affair with a psychopath? Read more
Published on Jan 26 2003 by Diana Poskrop

4.0 out of 5 stars The Story of Stella & Edgar
This book is the perception of the doctor who is treating Stella & Edgar. Stella develops a obsessive love for Edgar who is in the asylum for brutally murdering his wife... Read more
Published on Sep 12 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful and disturbing book.
When you start reading you feel detached from the story, as it is told by a professional psychiatrist, but as the story progresses you might start feeling that some of the... Read more
Published on May 26 2002 by P. Cat

5.0 out of 5 stars hallucinatory descent into hopelessness and despair
patrick mcgrath is not a writer of 'horror' in the supernatural sense, but in the psychological sense-he wants us to feel real discomfort about our own lives and the motives... Read more
Published on April 26 2002 by J from NY

3.0 out of 5 stars Anatomy of Obsession
This is a story told from the outside: an observing psychiatrist narrates a colleague's wife's adulterous infatuation with a criminally insane inmate named Edgar Stark on the... Read more
Published on Mar 11 2002 by bharring

4.0 out of 5 stars Throw caution to the wind & just enjoy the ride!
An excellent story! Stella finds herself married to the rather dull forensic psychiatrist Max Raphael; they have a child named Charlie. Life is good yet predictable. Read more
Published on Jan 21 2002 by D. Egan

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark, Intense Tale of Infidelity and Sexual Obsession
Set in rural England during the summer of 1959, Dr. Peter Cleave narrates the consuming affair between his disturbed patient and the wife of a fellow coworker. Read more
Published on Nov 15 2001

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