Also I looked through your account because I like your taste, it is absolutely imperative that you read The Tunnel. Personally I found it extremely difficult but reading it was like a revelation to me. I doubt there’s a better novel about human hatred, or a novel more philosophically disturbing. It’s one of my favorite books next to The Recognitions, Moby Dick, Ulysses, Under the Volcano, In Search of Lost Time, Darconville’s Cat, Dostoevsky’s Demons and the Divine Comedy.