The Guiltiest of Pleasures

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	• Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay Vintage, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 229 reviews view larger image
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exceptional dark comedy

Exceptional! highly original book . One of the best books about serial killers . And the killer is the good guy! very good humor. I couldn't stop reading. the next day I read the second book.

Different than the show

I bought the book after watching the 1st season of Showtime's Dexter. I loved the book, even though the series is very different. Even if you are a big fan the show, you should get the book and see where it all came from. The book is a very detailed and dark easy read.

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The Guiltiest of Pleasures

This book is a page-turner and very well-written (for readers who demand good prose as well as a griping story), but I have to warn you that it isn't for the squeamish. This is among the few books I'm actually embarrassed to admit I read -- and every word.

The title character, Dexter, is a psychopath and serial killer who treats the reader to a first-person narrative of his crimes. There's enough macabre humor to permit the reader to tell herself that it's OK to get deeply involved in the story. The author, Lindsay, also manages to convey a sense that a psychopath is detached from humanity -- feeling no emotions, godlike, swatting flies when he kills -- so the reader can pretend the book takes the moral high ground.

That said, the book glamorizes carnage, even though I suspect Lindsay tried very hard to avoid doing this. Yes, even the anti-hero narrator knows that he's a very sick person. Unfortunately, he justifies his crimes to himself and his audience: Dexter piously claims only to target serial killers more evil than he himself is -- except that occasionally he has an uncontrollable urge to kill someone else. In this case, he targets a woman whose crime is stupidity (granted, that's a crime) and ambition: his step-sister's rival on the police force. She proves her stupidity when she can't figure out who the killer is and then wears high heels in the final chase scene. Yup, I guess that makes it OK to chop her to pieces.

So, I probably won't read another Dexter novel, unless it's the only readable thing in the airport bookstore. But I did find this book fascinating.

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