The Patrick Melrose Novels: The Patrick Melrose Novels : Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk (CD-Audio)

from viviennestrauss

Beautiful prose, often humorous, but equally annoying with despicable characters. Better in the beginning, it started to feel like a real chore by the end.

from laweiman

Last week (the week of March 12, 2012), I read a review in the New York Times of Edward St. Aubyn's fifth and final book in a quintet of novels, referred to as The Patrick Melrose Novels. I became so intrigued from the review that I immediately downloaded all five of the books and started at the ...

from cptvegetable

Lovely prose, enjoyable to read, found the dialog unrealistic, but then I'm not particularly witty.

from nicktingle

An intense look at dessicated, decaying, and depraved members of the British Aristocracy. I wonder if the author underwent object relations psychotherapy. Very well written.

from theageofsilt

I only had time to read the first two novels. This is stellar writing about some deeply unpleasant characters! This is not a book for a reader that needs a hero in a novel.