Disappointing

Have to say I was looking forward to this book and came away from it pretty underwhelmed.

The book spends a lot of time comparing the story of Anders Brievik to Timothy Mcveigh (Oklahoma bomber) and Ted Kaczynski ( Unibomber), which is fair enough as they are all known lone wolf killers and the distinction between them and serial killers, school shooters etc is a fair one to make and is interesting to learn and all in all is pretty well handled in this work.

However. The authors handling of the Anders Breivik part of the story for me felt a lot more like a personal attack on Norway and Norwegians. Its political climate, its schooling system, even its entire population comes under attack from the author at an almost constant rate. I'm not Norwegian, I dont live in Norway so i cant claim to be even a layman on Norwegian custom or history but the author basically makes the entire population out to be brainless robotic sheep living in some sort of state controlled shame system. At times it even came across to me that the author somehow believes that Norwegians should be apologetic to Breivik for creating someone like him. Make your point by all means but this wore very thin very quickly.

As far as the actual performance of the audio book goes. The Narration of Mr Cross is very good, the editing however is awful. I dont know how audio books are made and edited but this one seems to be cut and pasted sentence by sentence. It often cuts off halfway through the last word of a sentence and the rejoins on the first word of the new one. Not quite bad enough to make you lose track but far too often to not notice and irritate you.

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