A review by babydragonmom7314
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

1.0

I got to about page 300 in this (I lost the marker unfortunately). I don't think I will pick it back up again (and probably want to start from the beginning if I did). I thought I could get past the gratuitous violence and I couldn't. I think I was daring myself to read it in the first place and miscalculated my reaction. Many of the reviews talked about the violence and how unnecessary it was and I didn't want to agree and i think I do. It's a shame, I would have liked to have seen where it went, but just couldn't stomach the death and destruction.

By no means do I think it is a terrible book per se, but it is hard not to feel like he was writing certain passages for the shock value and I just couldn't take the manipulation.