The author is apparently a reader of Sade and Bataille, authors I've picked up but mostly put down after a few pages. Perhaps if I had read more of those authors I would not feel as I do now having finished The Kindly Ones: fascinated, horrified, and robbed of an innocence I didn't know I had to loose. Probably not though.

If you find that you can appreciate "The Story of the Eye", then I suppose that I can recommend this book to you highly.