Not being a brilliant writer myself, I am not sure I can effectively convey the brilliance of this book with words. This is the first book by Rafael Yglesias I've read. It is the greatest novel I have ever read in my life. I feel robbed that this book was not required reading when I was in college. Instead of going into detail about the plot, I will just say if you are bothering to read this review then this book is a must-read. It has left an indelible mark on my soul and I will never be the same because of it. I know that's a corny thing to say, but I never knew a book could be this enlightening. I look forward to reading other books by this author.

This book is totally awesome. Mr. Yglesias describes every detail using brilliant words, and creates an exciting plot to keep you turning pages til the end! It's awesome!

This is certainly not the best book of all time but it is very good. Yglesias has written an engrossing story about a psychiatrist with a lurid past who loses a patient to suicide. The patients murders his own wife before he kills himself. Dr. Neruda begins an obsessive quest of revenge that ultimately shows him succumbing to the very evil he opposes

This book is very well written, and I had trouble putting it down. Yglesias creates fascinating characters and develops them well. However, what had first drawn me to the book --a cure for evil-- was not even mentioned until the last few chapters. Neruda's "cure" consisted of manipulating others and making them dependent on him. I found that a bit hard to accept. A wonderful lead-up to disappointment.

This book is divided into thirds. The first, which covers Dr. Neruda's childhood, is great writing in every way. Few works I have read have moved me and informed me at an equivalent level.It is literate, interesting, nearly flawless in it's exposition. There is a great feeling of safety, even though much of it is harrowing.

The next sections lead us into Dr. Neruda's adulthood, and show us the practical result of his childhood, an abused child who only works with abused children, and at his own expense, and then we are drawn past that into the world beyond child-psych by the case history of his adult patient. When the patient loses it, Dr. Neruda takes it personally, and slowly becomes a George Smiley with Freud on his shoulder. Even though some of this is unpleasant, it is this part of the book that kept me thinking--about the nature of evil, the irony of behaving in an evil way to "cure" evil, and the inherent evil nature of many "winners" if one takes his definition to be the correct one. A minor note: Dr. Neruda himself does not come up with the definition.

When this book does stumble, it does so because of a thread of preachiness that creeps into the narrative in the form of statistics about child abuse and Ritalin, and this has the effect of nudging one from the reality of the book, like a neighbor's dog barking while you're trying to read. But this is very slight, and may not even be noticed by some readers. One thing that cannot be overlooked is Yglesias' concern about social inequalities--in fact, many of the carriers of the "evil" described in this book are the usual kinds of pathological business stereotypes, although he does have many characters who are also in business and not malevolent. Some retentive professionals and some pathological business types will likely find the conclusions drawn by Dr. Neruda to be offensive.

All in all, a ripping good read, with a dry aftertaste of moral and social big questions. Reading this is almost like doing analysis, but without blaming your parents.

Fearless is about a man who is on a business trip. The plane where he is in crush down, and he with a number of other people survive. He thinks that he can't be hurt and that he is a sort of God. He tryes to test himself (that he is a God)by doing strange thinks. Than he meets a other surviver and he desides to help her. The end is very original.