RaveFull Stop\"... the ninety-nine pages of narrative are so explosive as to make one feel like you’re smuggling a weapon — something efficient and brutal, like the hand grenade that the protagonist lobs in the final pages ... Those who do simply open and read will find themselves immersed in a nightmare miniature where philosophical musing gives seamless way to beautiful but unyielding cruelty ... readers who are, like me, new to Hermans will also think of more familiar authors who have imprinted the nihilism of the war. Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller are the obvious correlates...\
