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Summary: Andy Kaufman's favorite book
Review: Andy loved this book and the other works of it's author. Get it!
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Summary: Masterpiece
Review: Another near-perfect novel by Selby.
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Summary: I just could not leave this book until the end !
Review: As soon as I started reading this book I was completly hypnotized by it ! the more you read it the more you wonder how far human nature can go. Of course if you want something reassuring and nice you should never read that book. It will leave you for sure a strange taste in the mouth... but if you are keen on acquiring a new dimension of human nature, just go for it ! It will certainly have some echos inside of you !
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Summary: A surprising discovery
Review: As you read "the demon", you ask yourself "how could this happen to anybody?, how can someone feel this bad out of nothing?"; as life goes by, you gradually understand.
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Summary: a perfect book
Review: captures addiction, human nature, denial, struggle and hell perfectly.I am fairly well-read, and this is about my favorite book ever.
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Summary: Selby: genius
Review: Every book that I have read written by Selby, has affected me in too many ways to mention. Those people who have read The Demon, and any other books by this man know, that he tells it like it is. Anyone who cannot handle his writing, or thinks that it is too "disturbing" is turning their head from reality. His fictional characters and scenarios may be coming from his head, but they are completely real, and are totally part of our society. His subjects are things that everyday people do not see; what society deems as "deviant"; and what parents tell their children to avoid. To ignore these things is to be ignorant and naive, and to pass them of as a fallacy, is to live a life of fantasy; in a world of peace, love, and perfection. But that is not how the world is outside of the comfort zone of suburban America. Some can relate to Selby and his characters; Being a victim of anxiety and depression, having that feeling of something churning and knotting up inside of you. Read these books to understand, not to entertain and critique. There is a bitter and ugly underworld developing under our noses, and we must understand it to ever begin to accept it.
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Summary: Horrors of an ordinary life!
Review: Harry had it all, and couldn't stand it. It makes you want to forget about living the good life and extremely content with the one you have. How can a man who has it all fall so low? Harry is a greatly developed character, and Hubert Selby Jr. is a literary mastermind. I have read almost all of his books, and I think I like this one the most. You actually see the demons that ride inside some peoples heads, through Harry. You wonder why America is so warped and all you see on television is voilence and chaos. Well Hubert Selby gets you one step closer to seeing why this is. Not a book for the faint of heart or the couple in a rough relationship, but I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: about average for Selby
Review: Harry White is an overacheiver yuppie type who has a proclivity for married women. After he becomes well established in his job, buys a home, gets married and has children, married women no longer have the same effect on him. Harry acheives most of the things he sets out to do (i.e. career, family, material possesions) so he comes to a point where he must find 'other things' to challenge himself to make him feel powerful and important. He does introspection, seeks psychiatric help and tries a new hobby to no avail. His relationship with his wife and children suffers. Over a period of time, he develops an addiction to bizarre behavior and whenever his bizarre needs are not satisfied, he experiences withdrawal symtoms which progressively get worse. Harry requires larger and larger doses of bizarre acts in order to find some semblance of sanity. This novel is not as graphic as "The Room" but is just as poignant.
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Summary: You think you know all about suffering?
Review: Hubert Selby, Jr. probably has a better handle on those little feelings you get in the bottom of your stomach than any other writer of our time. You know the ones... the ones that get worse and worse until you think they're eating you alive? The ones that you've never been able to accurately describe or even think about clearly? Read 'The Demon' and you'll have the words.
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Summary: A truly amazing book, a truly human book
Review: I am a huge fan of Selby and of all of his books, this one has to be my personal fav. Some will not like it for it is too dark, too personal, too true. If you are like me, and you look at a person as shallow in most cases, your mind goes off into deeper things, you are always tormented morally for some reason, the demon will rock your soul. As I was finishing the last few pages I looked down at my chest...it was going up and down as if I was gasping for air. The end is that intense. I have never had such a reaction from a film as I did from this book. I also felt like throwing up that night after finishing it. Not because it was gross, but because I was feeling that sickness that the main character was feeling. It was as Selby told my gut how to feel, and it felt. This is my fav book of all time, and if you see things differently than others, or you think you do, read this, it will change you.
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