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...wonder to what purpose the book was written, other than to serve as a framework for the inevitable screenplay. Maas suggests that the case "concerns what we as a nation were supposed to be all about" but never really explains how or why. Although Taylor is a psychotic monster, there is nothing epic about his depravity, and Maas never solves the mystery of this man's heart of darkness. It may be unfair to fault an author for the book he didn't write, but In a Child's Name might have probed more deeply had it been a novel...
This image of Silber as a tyrannical monster isextremely difficult for many students to shake,Cooper said...
Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars...
...past the middle. By that time, the novel's narrator, Patrick Bateman, is in full graphic babble about his adventures as a serial killer. With knife and pistol, he dispatches pets, children, high-fashion colleagues and ragged beggars. These are only warm-ups for what the M.B.A. monster does to women with nail gun, power drill, chain saw and, in a scene that should cause the loudest uproar, a hungry rodent. Those who are interested in the gobbets can exercise their rights as free American consumers early next year -- that is if they are still interested after reading...
...history," he tells her. "That's something I could never have with a fly. Because they only live for -- what? -- two weeks max." Flaherty, meanwhile, is disarmingly oblivious to the havoc he is creating. When he concocts a serum that turns his shy guinea pig into a snarling monster, he simply lets the hellion loose outdoors with a cheery "Run free...