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|date=April 2008
|isbn=978-0571234936
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm from another planet. The quote chosen for the cover of this book says ''It's always fun to take a journey inside her extraordinary Belgian brain'' (Dan Rhodes). The inside blurb describes the book as ''blackly funny''.
I found no humour at all in these pages.
''Sulphuric Acid'' is the sharpest, best-observed study of humanity I've found in a novella since Conrad's [[''Heart of Darkness]] '' - and it is even more bleak.
''The time came when the suffering of others was not enough for them; they needed the spectacle of it too.'' This is the premise. Reality television is passé.