A review by waxbiplane
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

3.0

maybe 3.5. Easy to read, but I'm not sure it's going to stick with me. As much about the fun of perceived taboo-busting as a teenager as about Jeffrey Dahmer. It's interesting as a speculation about how people who can go more than one way mentally/emotionally end up due to mitigating circumstances (if he had a more stable home life, would he have been able to get someone to hear the horrible shit that was happening in his head and work it out therapeutically and save himself from doing terrible things he knew were terrible and had not outlet for otherwise? or was this always the path he was going to end up on?), but ultimately, Dahmer ends up a character in a book as much about the narrator as him.