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raeroy's review against another edition
4.0
This story captured me from the start. Early on I didn't know it was based on true events. At times I wondered if Bob had split into multiple personalities.
hisghoulfriday's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
3.5
This book was a bit like if American Psycho was a gas jockey in rural Ontario.
It's written in a first-person POV from Bob Clark (whose real name is Cliff Klyder), a gas jockey who goes on an unaliving spree. It also has a true crime vibe to it. There were crime scene photos and some headlines which made the plot immersive, but I didn't like the fact they were randomly placed in the middle of the book since it made the flow seem a little disjointed.
I don't really know how to describe the book other than the fact that it was weird, silly, incredibly gory, and insanely hard to put down. I had a lot of fun reading this short book, and I recommend checking this out if you're in the mood for a slasher for spooky season🎃
It's written in a first-person POV from Bob Clark (whose real name is Cliff Klyder), a gas jockey who goes on an unaliving spree. It also has a true crime vibe to it. There were crime scene photos and some headlines which made the plot immersive, but I didn't like the fact they were randomly placed in the middle of the book since it made the flow seem a little disjointed.
I don't really know how to describe the book other than the fact that it was weird, silly, incredibly gory, and insanely hard to put down. I had a lot of fun reading this short book, and I recommend checking this out if you're in the mood for a slasher for spooky season🎃
michaellouisdixon's review against another edition
5.0
This was intense and disturbing. I was fascinated by the first person POV of a man whose had a psychotic break from reality. Not for the squeamish.
sky_maris's review against another edition
3.0
If I'm honest, I have no idea what was going on here. I liked the unreliable narration and the echoes of Humbert Humbert (from Nabokov's Lolita) in the main character, but when we got to the house, I lost the plot a little bit. Everything would have been fine for me if Charlie had not been included. His involvement throws everything into a weird light. If Bob had just been hanging out, chilling with his hallucination of Patty whom he'd just murdered, then I would have accepted it wholeheartedly. But the fact that Charlie claims to have interacted with Patty makes me wonder. What was the point of that?
erindillman's review against another edition
3.0
I may have enjoyed this better if I read it in one sitting instead of three.
A story told in the perspective of a murderous psycho path,is not something you get often.
It was still really great, but it may have got a better rating again, if I had read it in one sitting.
The thoughts in this man's mind, are just totally barbaric and unusual.
A story told in the perspective of a murderous psycho path,is not something you get often.
It was still really great, but it may have got a better rating again, if I had read it in one sitting.
The thoughts in this man's mind, are just totally barbaric and unusual.
slsndrs18's review against another edition
4.0
I can't decide if I hate this, love it, am weirded out by it, or just plain disturbed by it?? Maybe a little bit of all of them.
hughburger's review against another edition
4.0
Brief, gruesome and savage. I don't know what I expected but this was not it.
This book is wild. First-person narration of a sudden and shocking killing spree and the aftermath. To say more would be to spoil it.
Cashtown Corners is a real place matches the description in the book (but the gas station has been rebuilt and there is a Pizza Pizza in it now). One of those places where you wonder why it has a name at all.
I actually found myself holding my breath a couple times while reading this because the descriptions of nasty things were so vivid it was physically repulsive.
If literary horror is your thing, this will probably scratch your itch. Not for the faint of heart
This book is wild. First-person narration of a sudden and shocking killing spree and the aftermath. To say more would be to spoil it.
Cashtown Corners is a real place matches the description in the book (but the gas station has been rebuilt and there is a Pizza Pizza in it now). One of those places where you wonder why it has a name at all.
I actually found myself holding my breath a couple times while reading this because the descriptions of nasty things were so vivid it was physically repulsive.
If literary horror is your thing, this will probably scratch your itch. Not for the faint of heart
erindillman's review
3.0
I may have enjoyed this better if I read it in one sitting instead of three.
A story told in the perspective of a murderous psycho path,is not something you get often.
It was still really great, but it may have got a better rating again, if I had read it in one sitting.
The thoughts in this man's mind, are just totally barbaric and unusual.
A story told in the perspective of a murderous psycho path,is not something you get often.
It was still really great, but it may have got a better rating again, if I had read it in one sitting.
The thoughts in this man's mind, are just totally barbaric and unusual.
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