What impressed me the most with Chopping Spree is how it is a meditation on how materialism infects and undercuts society. If not for the greed and need of affirmation via expensive stuff a terrible series of crimes would never be committed.

The fact it loops back into how Goldy throughout the book keeps trying to justify buying exepnsive stuff she really can't afford to buy her son's love is just well done.

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