Mangez-Le Si Vous Voulez (Paperback)

from BraveNewBks

Well, that was harrowing. Based on a true story, this is a short, straightforward novelization of a horrific day in 1870 small-town France. In what might be the apotheosis of the phrase "mob mentality," a number of townspeople ganged together to beat, torture, mutilate, and eventually kill one o...

from BrandieC

Eat Him If You Like is a straightforward telling of a true, and truly sickening, incident of murder and cannibalism in 19th century France. It all starts with a bit of a Monty Pythonesque comedy of errors: "'Now now, my friends, what's going on?' said Alain, limping towards them. 'It's your cousi...

from boudicca123

This has to be the worst, most horrible book I have read in a long while because it is a true story and this all happened. I stayed up to finish it and then couldn't sleep for thinking about it. Alain is a decent young man, a good son and happy to help his neighbours and on the 16th of August 187...

from psutto

Good Based on a historic incident from the summer of 1870 this small but powerful book tells the tale of an incident when a town seemed to lose its mind and become a howling bloodthirsty mob. Alain de Moneys, a well-liked young nobleman visits the local fair before he goes off to fight in the Fra...

from psutto

Good Based on a historic incident from the summer of 1870 this small but powerful book tells the tale of an incident when a town seemed to lose its mind and become a howling bloodthirsty mob. Alain de Moneys, a well-liked young nobleman visits the local fair before he goes off to fight in the Fra...