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rahmer 's review for:
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
by Doris Lessing
At its outset, Briefing for a Descent into Hell nurtured a sense of apprehension in me. I was very confused and in dire need of more than doctors' notes and a stream of consciousness that was a mishmash of things that made sense and others that didn't. The doctors bickering over Charles's treatment was funny at times but also made them feel like vultures to me at others. Later, through epistles, the story slowly unfolds, and things start to fall into place. And although at times it isn't entirely clear who knows their contents other than the doctors, it is just so understood from the context how they feed into the storyline. I lost a friend when I got to the end of the novel, the same way Violate does.