These sound, as DFW intended I assume, as character studies of the dark side. Yet, as with the content overall, the ending's not surprising. The metaphorical and moral connections between Viktor Frankl's suffering endured that produced his Man's Search for Meaning and the assault perpetrated with a Jack Daniel's bottle on a teen victim ensure that no reader or listener will ever think of that Holocaust memoir-treatise the same from now on. Halfway, #46 does reach an apex of ingenuity. But this for four hours bogs down into a combination of raw (more ways than one) material for future dramatic monologues for auditions, and what feels, intentionally surely, the transcripts of a variety of depressed, bitter, lustful, wry, and/or erudite (as the author) case studies. On audio, there is talent applied diligently by a variety of youngish male actors. It's brief, compared to that bent on a harrowing evocation of the titular hideousness. One blurb lauds the "hilarious" content herein.
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