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UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE. Neither AIDS nor a serial killer can deflect the sexual searching of the young men and women in this punk-poetic, MTV-style thriller, full of quick verbal riffs and crosscut scenes, transferred from a Chicago hit to off-Broadway with stellar acting by hollow-smiled Clark Gregg...
...romantic method won't work. The central male, informed that someone loves him, replies that no such thing exists. His best friend's mantra: "Everybody lies." To underscore the nihilism, playwright Brad Fraser, 32, interweaves teen folklore of erotic mayhem, references to AIDS and a gradual unveiling of a serial killer -- all with mordant humor (a man going to a pickup bar shouts to his female roommate, "I have a blind date with destiny!"). A hit in Fraser's native Edmonton, Alta., and in Chicago, Human Remains is not only stylistically apt and journalistically observant about its rock-and-anomie...
...Serial killers are the darlings of the press these days, and authors find these gruesome murderers equally attractive. Time for a new novel? Can't think of a topic? Serial killers provide guaranteed drama, trauma and public interest. Whoever says that there are no positive sides to America's love affair with the sordid obviously has never spoken to a writer of trashy thrillers...
Presumably the urge to read a serial killer thriller is based upon a wish to enter into the mind and life of a figure that one finds both frightening and repulsive in order to understand his motives and his methods. How does the murderer entice and entrap his victims? And, more importantly, why does he kill? McCreary fails to make Siegert intriguing to the reader or explain the killer's mysterious appeal to his prey...
...reader of the book is compelled to agree with these imaginary detectives. In one's search to understand the mind of a serial killer, the daily newspaper supplies as much fertile material as does The Minus...