adamraye

Oh yes, the unabridged version is huge - and quite daunting at first - but once you let the thing just flow over you, it's a real great slow burner of a revenge story. Very highly recommended if you like a long read.

The Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson. There's something I really enjoy about these two almost magical realisim type books that never tires and I re-read them both at least once every few years.

.. and how sudden the ending was right?

It's one of my favourite books too. I dip into it a few times a year reading specific chapters, I find it incredibly evocative.

Well I remember reading in one or two sittings "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" by John Markov and Katie Hafner just before I discovered The Cuckoo's Egg and both gripped me in the same way.