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The Seven Days of Peter Crumb: A Novel (P.S.)

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If you didn't know better, you would think this book were written by Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, Choke & Rant. It is very in your face, with a lot of gross out scenes and twisted dark humor. If you like the above books, this is right up your alley.

Peter Crumb, a seemingly moral British man, has a voice in his head that tells him to engage in insanely immorale acts. Crumb's split personality is with him 24/7 and at first, they constantly argue over everything.

The voice refered to as "him" is highly disturbed and he is right right there with Peter in his head throughout the story. The internal conflicts almost always end in the killer getting his way. Bloody murders and rapes are "his" favorite past-times and "he" becomes a terrible influence on Crumb.

The reason for the title is that this split personality plans on killing its host body at the end of seven days.

Glynn's storytelling is superb. My only real critiques fall in super long paragraphing in places and in that the end is a little abrupt. Oterwise, this is a great quick read for people who like horrific content with a touch of gross-out humor.

The erosion of the mind into a moralless heap. You have to wonder what in Johnny Glynn's youth brought out these disturbing thoughts. Vivid detail draws a type of panic not just for the victims but for our protagonist(s) as well, because Peter Crumb is more than just one psyche, he is chaos.

When I read the synopsis for this novel, I immediately thought of American Psycho. Peter Crumb is an interesting character with similar views and violent urges to American Psycho's Patrick Bateman. He kills without remorse and is racist, sexist and materialistic.

The story follows him in a first person account of a week of madness, during which he kills a prostitute, a young store clerk and his neighbours, among others.

I would recommend this book to anyone with a strong stomach. If you could handle Bret Eason Ellis' American Psycho, this will only give you a bit of a jolt. A quick, fun disturbing read.

read the book,

"The seven days of Peter crumb"


The book really brings the issue into perspective from someone with multi-personalities and psychosis..

The thing about this book is that it is able to give a mysterious Edgar Allan Poe feel to it that gives a the speaker a vindicated reason of being perverse.


A lot of what Peter Crumb (protagonist) does in the book is Perverse but his reasoning is given, although it is unjustifiable .... it still is a reason even thought Peter is delusional...

Read this book, it is interesting if you are a Chuck Palanuik fan...
It has the same grotesque descriptions..
the same unfamiliar and insane instances..
the fear and horror like Edgar Allan Poe's tales...

and brings you to look at a different perspective.


Because the narrator does not limit what he tells the readers, he seems to be honest and really does give out a lot of information so you can bring things into your own perspectives.... The story doesn't limit or control interpretations like Edgar Allan Poe's stories.


Just give it a try. It's a new British author, you might like it. Its a crazy story.

This book was a facinating and horrific insight into an insane mind. recommended if you have a strong stomach.

In London Peter Crumb has recently begun listening to the other voice's recommendations. The conversations between Peter and the other Peter center on whether to rape and murder his neighbors. The other Peter insists he will be dead in a week anyway so forget the societal dictates of thou shall not kill and just have fun doing whatever you want to do.

Peter begins brutally killing his neighbors and raping prostitutes. As he completes one act, his voice tells him to do another. He begins to self analyze the two Peters and realizes that one is amoral while the other feels guilt but is cowardly. The amoral Peter continues to rule as THE SEVEN DAYS OF PETER CRUMB comes closer to ending at least in one of his egos with much of London in shock by the viciousness of a new serial killer rapist.

Readers will find the debate and discussions between the two Peters fascinating in a macabre way; similar to gawking at a car accident. His multiple personality disorder contains a remorseful but weak Peter and an amoral strong Peter who wins every argument as one kill leads to another. Even more interesting is how numb the audience feels towards the duel Peters graphically describing his methodology employed in his kills in the three decades since John Carpenter directed Halloween.

Harriet Klausner