Dying Inside

· Hachette UK
3.5
2 reviews
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188
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Born with the extraordinary power to look deep within the human heart, David Selig recklessly misuses his gift in the pursuit of pleasure, until his power begins to die and he must come to terms with what it means to be truly human. This is a fascinating portrait. Never has the experience of telepathy been conveyed so vividly, so excitingly, so chillingly. And never has Silverberg created so moving a story, as he depicts the flux of dying and thrust towards rebirth.

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3.5
2 reviews
Norbert Kozari
7 January 2015
He who enters the world of David Selig should be prepared for the internal struggle of an unnatural human, with a power to see through your mental wall and swim in the sea of your desires. The Concept is really good, and the style how the experience of reading mind is written down, makes us eager to just open up and walk amongst others with mental radars spying for the hidden pleasures of their very soul. Apart from this... well... It is a boring book. Usually I would burn through a book this size in two or three days, but this kept dragging on for weeks, months. Endlessly haunting me to make me feel a bad person not finishing it. Maybe this was the experience of David Selig. Maybe this is an experiment from the author to make us die inside as Duvid, just to feel the struggle of his. Loved the vulgarity and dirtiness of sexual pleasures, which gave a bit of a colour to the overall grey and meaningless life of a man, who's only part in the world was to... well... die inside. Sorry, but I really can't recommend this one. There are bigger and nicer tasting fishes in the ocean of human fantasies then this one.
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About the author

Robert Silverberg was born in 1935 and began to write while studying for his BA at Columbia University. He is one of the most prolific of all SF writers and among his many fine novels are Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, A Time of Changes and Lord Valentine's Castle.

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