Review: Waste of time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2011
The narrator begins by telling us how easy it is to get away with murder, telling us that he could be watching us right now, that he would decide when we'd die.Okay, promising start.He then goes on to share some of the easy murders he's committed, murders that are -- frankly -- dull. At no point does he show us how it's "easy" to kill.  He doesn't even break into a house.The first murder is completely unrealistic.  She's kicked out of a bar for being too drunk, but she drinks more with the narrator and is able to function normally.  Okay.  Then he kills a priest (we're specifically told he isn't Catholic, but then the priest prays in Latin -- a little confusing) because he wants to get the attention of the community.  Killing a priest may be shocking, but he just walked into the open church in the middle of the night where the guy was working -- hardly a master criminal move.Then he kills a child at the zoo in a scene taken almost directly from "American Psycho."He spends a lot of time bragging about how he isn't like other serial killers because he doesn't leave distinctive signs behind.  That actually rang true, because there was nothing distinctive about the character in this book.In the author' material at the end, Springer says this is the first time he's written from the killer's POV.  I would suggest going back to the drawing board before trying again.