Fantastic first novel! Very, very dark. If you can't handle ultra violence, don't read it. ( )

Engrossing diary of a madman. ( )

Scary but fascinating!

Okay - it's been compared to American Psycho because, I suppose, the main character is a psychopath. However, in American Psycho, the main character is written as a functional person, living a functional life; this is not the case in Crumb... he's a raving lunatic who pisses in his own pants on the bus.

And there really isn't a story here. There's no plot, no storyline, no conclusion: we see 7 days in a lunatics head - complete with raving hallucinations and several gory and detailed murders. So. As a babbling examination of what it might be like in a crazy person's head, it's mildly interesting. But as a novel in which you'd expect there to be some storyline or a plot with some sort of resolution, it's a complete flop.

It is very graphic and creepy. I wish there had been some storyline to it that would have made all this smooth, detailed and creative writing worth the time it takes to read. ( )

A very twisted book about a person you you would not want to spend time with ( )