“To
choose one’s victims, to prepare one’s plan minutely, to slake an implacable
vengeance, and then to go to bed… There is nothing sweeter in the world.”
Oh, Uncle Joe… (swoon!)
A recommendation! The Autobiography of Joseph
Stalin by Richard Lourie (1999) I’ve ranted about it to friends, colleagues,
and relatives—now it’s YOUR turn!
Here’s my “rave” copy-blurb for the back of the mass-market
paperback edition (that will never be printed):
—A nihilistic former seminary student rebelling against EVERYTHING becomes a bank robber—and later uses his gangster skills to get to the very top of the blood-drenched New Revolutionary Russia!
Colin Wilson + James
Ellroy + Chuck Palahniuk ÷ Early-Twentieth Century History = THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH
STALIN!
