5/21/2023 0 Comments Darkly dreaming dexter series![]() ''Oh, the symphonic shriek of the thousand hiding voices, the cry of the Need inside, the entity, the silent watcher, the cold quiet thing, the one that laughs, the Moondancer. Lindsay makes it clear from the outset that Dexter answers to his own inner torments. ![]() With monstrously windy prose and Needless Capital Letters, Mr. Should this not be blunt enough, Dexter also invites his victim to ''meet your Unmaker.'' Then he confronts him with evidence of his crimes, as follows: ''You are mine now,'' declares Dexter, who might as well be twirling a malevolent mustache as he ambushes Father Donovan. This is established in a prologue featuring the torture of a pedophilic priest. Lindsay's reigning gimmick is that Dexter isn't so bad because he kills only his fellow killers. But Dexter shares some of Lecter's taste for chilly inhumanity, artistic violence and moral relativism. ![]() Hannibal Lecter from the top of the homicidal heap. This much is clear: He's not clever enough to unseat Dr. Really, how witty is a killer who takes truncated body parts and arranges them to spell out ''Boo?'' In either case he is the spatter-pattern specialist Dexter Morgan, the narrator of Jeff Lindsay's fashionably grisly new novel, ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter.'' The book has attracted advance praise for its ghoulish ingenuity, but its degree of cleverness is questionable. Either that, or alliteration has an annoying new admirer. ![]()
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