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The book Zombie is told through the perspective of Quentin P, a newly paroled sex offender who progresses to becoming a serial killer. Quentin is a psychopath and a serial killer. He’s killed before. And he’s about to do it again. There are many graphic descriptions of what he’s done to his previous victims. And all of that is spiced up with his daydreaming while choosing the next one.With this latest collection, Oates continues to delve into the dark depths of the human condition with diverse stories of loss, regret, angst, and murder. This audio edition features a series of Continue reading » Smith died of complications from pneumonia on February 18, 2008, and the death affected Oates profoundly. [34] In April 2008, Oates wrote to an interviewer, "Since my husband's unexpected death, I really have very little energy [...] My marriage–my love for my husband–seems to have come first in my life, rather than my writing. Set beside his death, the future of my writing scarcely interests me at the moment." [89] [90]

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Zombie makes me weep for the justice system. Like American Psycho, it claims that if you have money or connections, it’s okay to do horrendous things to those society won’t miss. As far as horror goes, JCO succeeded in horrifying! The main character is 100% sociopath. There’s nothing good, nothing human or kind about him. You cannot relate, you can’t even feel sorry for him. Which is understandable, of course. It is how it’s supposed to be. But it also made this book completely unrelatable and unenjoyable. Oates's 2006 short story "Landfill" was criticized because it drew on the death, several months earlier, of John A. Fiocco Jr., a 19-year-old New Jersey college student. [32]As of 1999, Oates remained devoted to running, of which she has written: "Ideally, the runner who's a writer is running through the land- and cityscapes of her fiction, like a ghost in a real setting." [96] While running, Oates mentally envisions scenes in her novels and works out structural problems in already-written drafts; she formulated the germ of her novel You Must Remember This (1987) while running, when she "glanced up and saw the ruins of a railroad bridge", which reminded her of "a mythical upstate New York city in the right place". [96] Death of Personality: Quentin experiments with altering his victims brains to render them entirely obedient and compliant. He describes his ideal zombie as having "dead eyes with nothing behind them".