Quite disturbing and unremittingly unnerving, this short book puts you inside the mind of a remorseless serial killer. The real horror here is the mundane and matter of fact way in which the murderer views his crimes, completely devoid of any human sympathy. ( )

Disturbing, boring, and pointless. ( )

Chi uccide gli altri uccide solo se stesso.

L'ho letto ieri sera prima di andare a dormire e menomale che non ho avuto incubi ( )

DSKSGHSGDK WHAT THE FUCK JOYCE. I will never forgive you for that ending. I almost threw my Kindle across the room. ( )

3.0

This is a difficult read. It is a glance into the mind of a serial killer modeled after Jeffrey Dahmer. It discusses everything from his twisted perspective which is steeped in selfish privilege, hate, and racism. This is much like Dahmer who spent an existence enabled to commit his crimes against POC because his parents afforded him opportunities, lawyers, and a disturbing level of the benefit of the doubt. Also because white society tends to not care what happens to these people, which Oates also addresses.

I had to digest this in small bites (no pun intended) because it is very graphic and disturbing. It is also somewhat difficult to read because it is like the mad scribbling of the damned. Punctuation and sentence structure is out the window. It was a fair portrayel, but still somehow lacked depth, therefore I couldn't give it more than a low three stars. ( )