Mahrya's review of Zombie
Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
This is an example of the Joyce Carol Oates I'm not too crazy about. Compared to Them or The Childwold, Zombie seems to lack a sense of time and place, and even character. You feel nothing for any of them, which Easton Ellis pulls off well, but not Oates. This book is loosely based on Jeffrey Dahmer's homemade zombie quest, and there's plenty of gruesomeness involving neighborhood boys, icepicks and duct tape. She gets well inside the mind of a serial killer, but to sensational effect. I was mainly just grossed out. But then again, I gross out easy.
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