by Domenic Stansberry
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 a plunge into the darkness, 2008-07-21
"The impulse is in all of us. The reasonable person, he tunes it out. He shuts it off. It's a matter of will."
Reading The Confession, we follow the narrator in a darkness which is rarely explored, a dark pit from which the work never emerges. Finally the reader, disoriented, is abandoned to find his way back to the reality we prefer, a world of rules, perhaps loose, perhaps marginally defined, but nevertheless necessary for survival. Here the reader is thrown at the mercy of the narration, carried along past the fragile boundary of these rules, into the black chaos which is more easily ignored.
Those who practice evil are generally vilified, written off as deviants, "the other". Yet don't we each have within ourselves the capacity for evil? A darkness, suppressed, which given the circumstances, could emerge? It's important to visit that suppressed self, to identify it so that it can be kept in check, to not ignore the chaos, but to confront it. This is the brilliance of Stansberry's work. This is why you should read "The Confession".
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 Great Prose; Unappealing Plot, 2008-07-03
I was really impressed with the quality of writing in Domenic Stansberry's THE CONFESSION, which is far above the norm in the crime genre. Unfortunately, this novel features such an unappealing main character that I never really cared about the story.
This, of course, was Stansberry's intention -- he's trying to write an ultra-dark, modernized version of a noir novel, with an unambigious anti-hero. But ultimately, the lead character is so amoral and unlikable that I was indifferent to THE CONFESSIONS's outcome, which made this book something of a chore to finish. I also found the book's final twist to be highly predictable, and therefore unsatisfying.
THE CONFESSION won the Edgar award for best paperback original the year it was published. If you like your crime novels dark and and well written, it's probably worth your time.
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Brilliant, 2008-03-30
This book is truly great. Not so common for the genre brilliant writing. I hope the Hard Case Crime will publish more books by this talented writer.
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 The Confession, 2008-02-14
Too much talk and a very poor plot. You can skip this book and look for a bunch of other books in the the very good and talanted HCC series.
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SPOILED BY ENDING, 2007-08-25
Terrific read up until Epilogue...Bad ending, doesn't jibe with 'evidence' as it were. Too many red herrings were strewn along the way.
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