Another Skewering of The Kindly Ones

[rich]

by Ruth Franklin in TNR

http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=cdf618b2-f36b-49e0-a8e1-bd6bcae5f5e2&p=1

i have to laugh at reviewers who are shocked and dismayed that a novel
about an unrepentant Nazis is highly repugnant.

What I find repugnant is her equating Littell's work with Thomas Harris.

maybe its the gay sex, maybe its the incest, maybe its the shit-filled
world of these barabarians, maybe its the "gruesome comedy" of mass
murder.

these folks want more schlinder-like stories to feel good about what u
can't feel good about

still think daniel mendelson's review in the NY Review Books is the
best i've read.

rich (600 pgs in)