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msreadsall_92's review
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.75
billymac1962's review against another edition
4.0
A 500 lb serial killer. It's graphic, it's sick, and it's great!
drewdietsch's review against another edition
3.0
A solid if unsurprising bit of two-fisted slasher nastiness. Never is quite as invigorating as its excellent cover.
kkehoe's review against another edition
4.0
A prose version of a Creature Feature, in which the mammoth monster is a man with a taste for violence and flesh that rivals that of any bloodthirsty beast in fiction. While others seem to feel that Daniel "Chaingang" Bunkowski is glorified to heroic proportions, I just did not get that feeling at all. This is a man that is devolved by the author into something inhuman, a jazz-like mass of run-on insanity and sadistic self-aggrandizement. He is an IT. And IT is a terrifying and bile-inducing MONSTER no less so than any of King, Masterton, or Lovecraft's otherworldly horrors.
acknud's review
3.0
I enjoyed this book but not enough to give it a five. I found Millers style of peering into the killers thoughts and memories somewhat hard to follow at times. I never found myself really worrying about the characters. I thinks this needs to be on the reading list of all serial killer fans but not ranked near the top. I was especially disappointed in the climax which was....somewhat anti-climactic!
kkehoe's review
4.0
A prose version of a Creature Feature, in which the mammoth monster is a man with a taste for violence and flesh that rivals that of any bloodthirsty beast in fiction. While others seem to feel that Daniel "Chaingang" Bunkowski is glorified to heroic proportions, I just did not get that feeling at all. This is a man that is devolved by the author into something inhuman, a jazz-like mass of run-on insanity and sadistic self-aggrandizement. He is an IT. And IT is a terrifying and bile-inducing MONSTER no less so than any of King, Masterton, or Lovecraft's otherworldly horrors.
toshiakiwaykawada's review
1.0
This book is the hottest garbage. It's like Bret Easton Ellis had a baby with Donald Westlake and took the worst aspects of both writers. Miller sticks the occasional obscure terminology in between long, rambling sentences as if one SAT word will make up for the lame stream of consciousness nonsense. This brand of exploitative fiction just doesn't cut it in a modern context.
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