This book was a bit like if American Psycho was a gas jockey in rural Ontario.

It's written in a first-person POV from Bob Clark (whose real name is Cliff Klyder), a gas jockey who goes on an unaliving spree. It also has a true crime vibe to it. There were crime scene photos and some headlines which made the plot immersive, but I didn't like the fact they were randomly placed in the middle of the book since it made the flow seem a little disjointed.

I don't really know how to describe the book other than the fact that it was weird, silly, incredibly gory, and insanely hard to put down. I had a lot of fun reading this short book, and I recommend checking this out if you're in the mood for a slasher for spooky season ( )

People Live Still in Cashtown Corners is essentially lite horror. It’s a quick, fun, read that doesn’t invoke any difficult emotions or inspire much afterthought. The narrator’s discomfort with human interaction was vaguely charming, in addition to being the only aspect of the story with depth beyond that of a slasher flick. Styled like a true-crime diary, including photos for interest.
As a horror fan I greatly enjoyed this book despite its simplicity. ( )

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this was, unless it was just "here's someone with very little connection to reality and a whole lot of bodies." Not my favorite kind of story. The true-crime-style photo section in the middle did add an interesting layer of creepiness, but that's not enough to make it interesting. ( )

I read this immediately after The Seven Days of Peter Crumb. Both books have a similar "plot" (yes, that is using the word "plot" VERY loosely), but Cashtown is much more "sensible"; the main character is more believable and his actions, while extreme, *could* have happened the way they are described (not so with Crumb).

The book starts off with the attitude that murder is just another activity in the day... pump gas, buy groceries, murder someone, watch TV... ho-hum...

The tone does change around the midway point - and becomes more chaotic, gory and extreme. It almost has a feel of a true crime story (and the pictures in the middle of the book encourage this conclusion)... which I think makes the story especially disturbing.

I guess it could be thought of as a glimpse inside the head of a psychopath, complete with his own reasonings as to why he's psycho. While it is kind of similar to American Psycho, this one is more chaotic, and the crimes more... err.. aggressive and extreme. ( )