There's disturbing and then there is this book. More like a novella. Just amazed how in so few pages the author manages to leave his story deeply imprinted in my mind and with such a bad aftertaste. This is the story of how a serial killer is born. A deeply disturbed, sick and crazy killer. Keith is a teenage boy that starts giving signs that he enjoys inflicting pain and all that it conveys. Along comes his uncle Till, who happens to be the Ladylike killer -of course-. This is the story of how a sick twisted mind influences and trains the mind of a disturbed and confused kid. The end left me feeling disgusted and I don't know if I recommend it or not. Gave it four stars because a book that can evoke such strong feelings is a book well written. Thank God it's short and I can now move on to something else. in researching a novel I had a mission to read the majority of first person accounts of serial homicide, stream of consciousness-style fiction. Here is my list.1. Killer on The Road by James Ellroy2. A Special Place: the heart of a dark matter by Peter Straub3. The Killer by Colin Wilson4. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite5. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates6. The Girls he Adored by Jonathan Nasaw7. Head Hunter by Michael Slade8. Stray Bullets (series) by David Lapham9. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson10. I AM Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver) by Dan Wells11. Frenzy by Rex Miller12. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks13. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis14. Slob by Rex Miller15. Psycho by Robert BlochHopefully my new novel, Blood Related (Nov/Dec release), might perch on the end of this list one day (audible sigh). Check out the list, will update as more come to mind.
As a small part of a larger work, it's intriguing. As a work on its own, it's disturbing.
—JDOBB
Read it awhile ago and it is a good companion to A Dark Matter.
—dannyahall
Completely creeped me out.
—eliseisanowl
Seriously disturbing!
—echelle7
