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In this sober, incisive, and riveting book, a well-documented history rather than a novelistic evocation of the man himself, Roudinesco cannot conceal her dismay that Lacan was not better behaved, more temperate in his appetites, less baroque in his provocations.
It's a bizarre concoction, but it's riveting--and I use that term advisedly, in the sense of a hack-'em-up serial killer riveting somebody's head to the side of a door.
I think it makes at least an in-good-faith attempt to be fun and riveting enough on a page-by-page level so I don't feel like I'm hitting the reader with a mallet, you know, "Hey, here's this really hard impossibly smart thing.
USA Today 's Katy Kelly writes, "The plague problem, which should be riveting, is so well-explained that it wearies the reader."
He is one of the great chroniclers of midcentury luridness, but his photographs of men grinning at a dead body on the sidewalk are like those photographs of Southerners milling around after a lynching: They are undeniably riveting, but you don't really want to stop to think about what the photographer was doing there in the first place.