The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Audiobook (Unabridged)

" I found this book quite a difficult read and did take a while to get into it. However I enjoyed the different narratives and different points of view given by these. I liked how the Editor's narrative told the events based on know fact and how this set-up the Sinner's narrative which told the same story from a personal and extremely biased view. The story shows how any form of religious extremism and self-rightousness is dangerous and how it can come to dominate a person's life to the extent that they would kill for it. It can also be interpretated as a story about mental illness rather than religious extremism and shows how an obsessive and suggestable personality can become destructive and murderous. I think it is a story about both and how these two things interplay and 'feed' of each other producing the religious zealots that were abundant in the past and are becoming so again today "

" it was a disturbing look at how Scripture can be twisted to justify evil actions. it was like reading the diary of a pharisee. "

" An excellent book and fascinationg as an account of what could be called, depending on the era and the concepts used, "demon possession", "mutiple personality disorder" or something else! The book pre-dates the more famous Dr Jeckle and Mr Hyde by Stevenson, which it presumably influenced. "

" It's kind of a scary book really. Scared me more than C.S.Lewis' Screptape Letters did. Its scary to think that our most fervent convictions may be false. And its scary to think how a little falsehood mixed with truth yields the most disasterous consequences. And everyone who believes in something should read it, just so you can second guess yourself, and have good reason to. "

" A very interesting and at times thrilling and disturbing tale of a young man who believes he is doing good by murdering sinners, accompanied by a mysterious stranger. "

" This book is not seperated into chapter which makes it difficult to read but it is a really interesting view of good and evil. "

" Had I encountered this book when I was younger, I might well have turned out to be a serial killer. "

" The writing style might be a little hard for some people to get through but its an interesting classical read. "

" once used to the style of writing both in the narrative and the memoirs I became intrigued by the story yet slightly unsettled that the ending was set no more than a mile from my home. "

" meh. Hard to sympathise with a main character who is a religious zealot who then finds that doesn't work out so well for him. "

" I'm hoping that the value of this text will become clear after I get through some other material but I just could not get into this for anything other than academic reasons. It was too like Maturin's "Melmoth the Wanderer" for me to find the novelty compelling. "

" It's hard to engage with a book when you don't buy the dogma that comprises its dramatic premise. "

" Excellent. Very deep, requires to be read again as I am sure I will get more from it second time through "

" The first ever psychological novel? James Hogg obviously didn't like the Calvinists of his time, and some of this is very funny as well as being very scathing. You need to be able to understand written Scots at times though. "

" Wild. How did this avid reader get to be fifty years old and never hear of this book? "