Books like Ugly Man

Angsty little boys who have rape-death fantasies run into angsty bigger goys who fantasize about being the active part of the rape-torture-murder scene. And then the angsty little boys die at the hands of the angsty bigger boys. Over and over and over, this man has the temerity to tell the same stupid story in the same vapid tone, using the same puerile style of sentence. Childish writing applied to a very grownup subject matter doesn't make the writing any less childish.Remember Poppy Brite's _Exquisite Corpse_? I think that is the right title. She dealt with the same subject matter. Her book showed enough discipline to give some detail of the process involved without reducing her work to a mindless bloodfest. This approach gives the reader a feeling of horror that is not to be found when the narrator casually mentions that the victim now has no legs and moves on. She also applied her powerful writing skills to make her book interesting as a study of the imaginary psychology of her imaginary killer.So, it's not squeamishness that makes me hate this book. This book is what makes me hate this book. It feels like something written by a high school freshman.