Review: Horribly Graphic!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
I bought this out of curiosity, to learn how that sort of person `ticks'. I have read far more graphic books when I read non-fiction stories about psychopaths, but at least there the graphic details also showed you, at least in part, how those persons `ticked'. But, this book, the graphic violence was simply gratuitous, and served no purpose other than graphic details to shock, repulse, or whatever. And, though the graphic details in this book were not as extreme as in non-fiction books, make no mistake, the level of graphic details in the book can give you nightmares, even if you stop reading the book far before bedtime.The book was engaging, but not in a good way. I had to know what happened, but it was a very difficult read; both because of the subject matter and also because the writing was so poor. There were frequent punctuation and grammatical errors. He even would spell a name one way in once sentence, and then spell the same name totally differently in the very next sentence. He often had the wrong word substituted for a similar word that didn't even fit the sentence. And, the story line was such a jumble it was simply difficult to follow.I wished throughout that I had never picked up the book, but felt compelled to know what happened. I just wanted to be done with it. AND THEN, geez, it doesn't end; THERE IS A SEQUEL!!! I feel compelled to read the sequel, so that I get the ending, but geez, reading this book was already so danged depressing that I don't think I could stand to ever read another of his books. I did real the introduction to the sequel, but it looks like another stupid duplication of some of the truly unreal stuff in this book.SPOILER ALERT:By the way, in this book he stupidly wrote that one of his victims were acting aroused and sexually behaving as though they were acting with him in the sex act. How utterly stupid!