On the commentary of Pascal E, I wrote a comment and I insert it here in order to develop the final score of this book: this user deems too long and passing only an insane asylum! Other very brilliant novels are very long, and unique? Cutesy apologize again: a lot of good stories for a unique place (A random example "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehanne?). The author has not written anything: to feel uncomfortable reading of the universe (of crazy) it describes, is that he spent a lot of time refine the plot plot because there is such a murder ... The end of the novel is so unexpected that I almost regretted that the end occurs. The world of fools, which they place on live (survive), and the atmosphere of despair that prevails are not imbued with optimism, sure: it makes us measure the chance to have the little things that make the "normal" life and that fools no longer: they still have their dignity as human beings, perhaps even more, and this is a finding that thrilled. There is no mention of "serial killers", or sex ("Fifty Shades of Grey" where eroticism is seems he very successfully), but beings that evolve in a lost world: their despair m ' has moved and some behind the walls of the asylum claims may have also finally lost his mind ... forever. A very hard book, very sad that describes an unbearable atmosphere. I can understand that some do not complete because it comes out of this story strong upset. A moving story. RickN