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A review by cantaralia
Psycho by Robert Bloch
4.0
“Imagine flaying a man alive, probably, and then stretching his belly to use it as a drum! How did they actually go about doing that, curing and preserving the flesh of the corpse to prevent decay? For that matter, what kind of a mentality did it take to conceive of such an idea in the first place?”
The last question constantly crossed my mind while reading this book. A thought is all it takes. But what kind of process, what kind of person, what kind of background does it take for a thought, an idea like that to be born, and then, executed?
It made me list many inhumane things people have done in the past, things I only knew from history books, and filter them trough that one question.The realization made the knowledge feel worse, it felt heavy. I had never seen it from that perspective before.
The author really knows how to make you dive in Norman's head. What he thought, what he believed he did, or didn't do, and his whole curse of action. He build a very obscure atmosphere in general, and I was very creeped out by the whole thing, so I guess the book fulfilled its purpose.
The last question constantly crossed my mind while reading this book. A thought is all it takes. But what kind of process, what kind of person, what kind of background does it take for a thought, an idea like that to be born, and then, executed?
It made me list many inhumane things people have done in the past, things I only knew from history books, and filter them trough that one question.The realization made the knowledge feel worse, it felt heavy. I had never seen it from that perspective before.
The author really knows how to make you dive in Norman's head. What he thought, what he believed he did, or didn't do, and his whole curse of action. He build a very obscure atmosphere in general, and I was very creeped out by the whole thing, so I guess the book fulfilled its purpose.