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” These Violent Delights ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. The Secret History meets Lie with Me in Micah Nemerever’s compulsively enjoyable debut novel – a feverishly taut Hitchcockian story about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of moving past the recent death of his father. Sensitive, insecure, and incomprehensible to his grieving family, Paul feels isolated and alone. When he meets the worldly Julian in his freshman ethics class, Paul is immediately drawn to his classmate’s effortless charm. Paul sees Julian as his sole intellectual equal — an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. Paul will stop at nothing to prove himself worthy of their friendship, because with Julian life is more invigorating than Paul could ever have imagined. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel, and Paul becomes increasingly afraid that he can never live up to what Julian expects of him.

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That being said, I think that the characters of Paul and Julien were really well done even though I didn’t like either character very much at all (then again, they’re not good people so I don’t think I was supposed to). The author mentions in his author’s note at the end that Paul and Julien are supposed to represent the obsession and toxicity that can occur in what he refers to as ‘identity-consuming romantic friendships’ and I think that aspect of the story was executed perfectly. I put this book down for a really long time because Julien, one of the central protagonists, was really getting on my nerves since he seemed to exhibit every single aspect of the ‘dark, dramatic, wannabe hipster/rich kid befriends shy, poorer kid’ archetype and I wasn’t really in the mood for reading that kind of unbalanced dynamic again. Paul was so much more interesting at the beginning but by the later half of the book, I loved how the power dynamic shifted and as Julien reveals more of his true feelings and care for Paul, Paul grows darker, meaner, and, frankly, more annoying.