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Jennifer Compton wrote: > The Bridge Over The River Drina doesn't suck - but it is way too much > for me. It describes horrors - the same sort of horrors that happened > and still happen - and I know they happen, but in the book they got > right under my skin and I simply couldn't read on. I wish people would quite REMINDING me of stuff. Disgust and horror? I give you Mario Vargas Llosa's *The Feast of the Goat*, a presumed fiction about the last days of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the Dominican dictator. Included are his grotesque pedophilia, his assassination, and the post-assassination revenges perpetrated by his two sons Ramfis and Radames. The fact that Llosa turns Trujillo into something resembling a fully rounded human being makes him even more appalling than his political acts, which included the massacre of hundreds of Haitian refugees. ken ------------------ Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com "It takes a big man to cry. It takes a really big man to laugh at that man."