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Blackburn

By Bradley Denton
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Publisher Description

Jimmy Blackburn grows up in the Midwest believing the things that adults tell him. He questions his teachers and they lie to him. He questions his parents and his father beats him. He questions the world and it hurts him.

And so Jimmy Blackburn becomes a killer.

In this novel we meet many of Blackburn's twenty-one victims. They include law enforcers, writers, adulterers, auto mechanics, and other liars.

This is an exceptional novel, at once riotously funny and searingly potent: a vision of America through the eyes of the central bogeyman of our culture.

5 Reviews

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“This book started out so good. The first handful of chapters were amazing, especially Blackburn's childhood. Seeing how others saw him as a freak while also having access to his motivations provided the emotional base needed to feel for him and his troubles through the rest of the book. But I just seemed to have really bad timing with this one. The first time I stopped, where the book picked up next was his first real relationship. It started with a lot of sex and then things moved very fast, and ended exactly how I didn't want them to--predictably awful. So many novels do this [], and TV shows, and I'm just getting sick of it. That knocked the book down to 4 stars. Then when I picked it up again later, all of the sudden he was on a completely different track in life [] and I felt like I had missed a big chunk of something important. The tone was different, the situation was different, the mood was different, and I felt like there really wasn't any sufficient motivation for Blackburn to be there. Hence 3 stars. The very end of the ending was, predictably, mushy and redeeming, but I still cared enough for Blackburn for it to effect me a little. But it wasn't enough to redeem how I felt about earlier parts of the book. I had such high hopes from what the synopsis said and how things started, and I knew of course that things couldn't end all happy and rainbows; most things don't when you're a serial killer. But even keeping that in mind, it still felt like it fell flat of what it could have been and lost so much of my interest and enthusiasm along the way.”

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