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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() Well, his real name is Poe, and like most serial killers, he has had a troubled childhood, an absent father, broken home life, and was bullied at school. But he does have some redeeming qualities. He is intelligent. He has a long-standing relationship with his best friend, and a girlfriend who he loves. However, these may have been the only things that could have saved him from spiraling into a psychopathic killer. Disaster struck here as well. His friend committed suicide. He was unfaithful and got another girl pregnant. He lost the only two people where there existed mutual love and respect for one another. And it is here is where the hunter is born. The hunter claims to be a protector of children. Perhaps he is trying to protect the loss of innocence, as that loss of his own innocence may have been Poe’s turning point. The hunter believes that he is a defender of innocent children and women. The hunter kills those who threaten the lives of good families. As an adult, Poe has a family. A growing one, as his girlfriend, who he calls his wife, although she has not agreed to marry him, is pregnant. His girlfriend is the same one during his teens that became pregnant and caused him to break up with the girl he loved. Their relationship is strained as she works several jobs, and Poe works as an ordinary pizza delivery man, conveniently driving a van at night to make his pizza deliveries. The van is used to capture his murder victims. As the hunter, Poe has already murdered. And his girlfriend has a lover, who Poe plans to murder. This takes up a lot of the story. There were some twists and turns at the end, which I won’t ruin. The book began with Poe as an adult, then flashed back to him as a teen. It was at this point, the writing seemed to change, and it really dragged on. Then it went back to him being an adult, and parts of that I had to force myself to read. There were chapters that just seemed to be repetitive. I found myself really losing interest. I thought this book would be more interesting and get into the psychological profiling of serial killers, but in the end, it was just telling a story, not answering questions as to whether a serial killer is born or made from the factors that take place in a person’s life. After all, it is a work of fiction. ![]() ![]() nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Bullied as a child for being overweight and an orphan, the serial killer in I Disappeared Them hides in plain sight. By day, he is an affable family man with a disarming smile, surrounded by his children and loving wife. At night he punches the clock as a hard-working pizza man. After work, he roams Miami's nighttime streets as the Periwinkle Killer, the sociopath passing judgment on the wicked according to a twisted moral code. He believes himself to be a defender of women and children. The Everglades is filling up with the corpses of his victims. He must be stopped, but there are no clues except the periwinkles he leaves at every crime scene. I Disappeared Them is a brutal, boy meets girl love story that delves into the Periwinkle Killer's childhood to confront the age-old question, is a serial killer designed or destined? Like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates's Zombie, Preston L. Allen's immersive narrative hauntingly occupies the peculiar psychological landscape of a murderer." -- Jacket flap Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The parts I did not like so much were the murders themselves. They just did not make much sense to me. Wouldn’t a company pizza delivery van with a mattress in the back be somewhat suspicious to other pizza employees? How about the unexplained time away from work (he’s the manager)? And how can he manage to do so much—take care of the kids, keep the house impeccably clean, work, keep his wife happy, kill--in a day?
Besides all this, however, I had a good time reading this book; even with all of the implausibilities. The writing was very good, and the twists and turns were fun.
I would like to thank Akashic Books and LibraryThing for the opportunity to read and review this book. (