Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by pietopper
The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
4.0
A senior devil in Lucifer's army manages and observes the heritage and childhood of Adolf Hitler. Well written and quite engaging. The description of the mating that conceives Adolf Hitler, panned as the "most horrific sex scene ever written" is , well, rather tame. A whole mythology is built up and explained about God, the Devil, the angels and a whole supernatural world that (somewhat) controls our thoughts and actions. Sometimes these asides go on a bit much.
A plausible (but unlikely) explanation is offered that Hitler was the product of multiple instances of incest, culminating in his father's (unknowingly) coupling with his own daughter - the child of his relationship with his sister. It gets a bit complicated.
Well worth reading just for the prose and the atmosphere of late nineteenth century Austria.
A plausible (but unlikely) explanation is offered that Hitler was the product of multiple instances of incest, culminating in his father's (unknowingly) coupling with his own daughter - the child of his relationship with his sister. It gets a bit complicated.
Well worth reading just for the prose and the atmosphere of late nineteenth century Austria.