Book Review: Mask Market by Andrew Vachss - Page 3

On feminists:
“Those so-called feminists make me retch … They say they’re all about choice – like abortion, how they adore abortion – but you’re only allowed the choices they say are okay. They whine about empowerment, but you can only be empowered if you lap up every word they say, like a tame dog.”

On Disney:
“You can’t buy porn from Disney. They’re all about family. Of course, they’ve got no problem hiring a convicted child-molester to make horror movies … about kids.”

On drugs and OPEC:
“You didn’t need a degree in higher mathematics to figure out what was going on. The Taliban banned poppy farming because they already had huge stocks on hand. Same way OPEC gets together and reduces oil production – to keep the barrel price high … and stable.”

On drugs again:
“The only war on drugs the sanctimonious swine are winning is the one to keep old folks on fixed incomes from filling their prescriptions in Canada or Mexico. And Ray Charles could see who was making out on that deal.”

On everyday life:
“I stopped by a deli on my way home, planning on grabbing a sandwich to go. But the tuna looked suspicious and the egg salad looked downright guilty, so I passed.”

On human trafficking:
“…this ‘trafficking’ thing, it’s all just another mask. Read the papers. Watch TV. Go to a cocktail party. Nobody cares about trafficking in children so long as you’re going to use them the way they’re supposed to be used... You know, like making them work in diamond mines, or sewing soccer balls, or plowing fields.”

While some might call the worldview that’s portrayed and described in his novels as twisted, or overly pessimistic, I prefer to call it real. It’s real life, and unfortunately, it’s what many of us today choose not to be a part of.

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