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Hi, all. My pen name is Tommy Walker and I'm author of a beautiful nonfiction book entitled, "MONSTROUS: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer but for the Grace of God". My greatest hope is to find for my book lots of souls to be touched by it, readers who will be generous with their impressions and who would maybe like to correspond afterward or even during.

MONSTROUS reviewed by DEVIANTCRIMES

MONSTROUS reviewed by KIRKUS DISCOVERIES

MONSTROUS at AMAZON.

MONSTROUS reviewed by MY FIRST INTERNATIONAL READER

"Quite frankly the biggest mindfuck I have ever read, yet paradoxically therapeutic. A maelstrom of a journey through an emotional hellfire of ebonite isolation and self-hatred, yet ending with the joy of finding love, and oneself. Not to be missed."

--Andy Cheek, England

MONSTROUS QUOTABLES

(as culled from every reader who has commented on my book through BookCrossing)

Kaija

"This is feeling vaguely like a deja vu experience. Well, not exactly. I wasn't good enough for invisible friends or multiple personalities of any kind."

"I think people are expecting a shocking book, with the 'normal' parts trimmed out, but I think that overall it's the normal that IS shocking."

"Here I am a month or months...(I can't remember when I finished!) and it is STILL in my head. I keep bringing it up around my friends...they are dying to read it."

salinger007

"I remember telling MonstrousWalker that I was looking for something different. To say he delivered is an understatement! I had gotten into a routine of reading what is thought of as "women's fiction", Oprah book club selections, etc. Those books mentally made love to me. Yet, like a typical one night stand, the whole thing was forgotten within a week. This book fucked me. Then rudely shot its load in my face. I loved every minute of it."

"This paragraph on page 13 really blew me away. I found myself going back to read it again and again. I haven't had that feeling about a paragraph since I was 15 (now 31) and read Keroauc's 'the only ones for me are the mad ones' for the first time."

Rhenium3

"It amazes me that you have remembered so much...The book says things that everybody thinks, but denies thinking them. Excellent book...I avidly recommend."

Greyflank

"One of the most interesting things about reading this book was how often the old mirror radar went PING! VERY nicely written...this is the story of a man adrift in his mind and his efforts towards a kind of 'perfection'."

YokoSpungeon

"a singularly affecting book...it has the potential to become a classic of its genre (which is probably somewhere in the same section as Hunter S. Thompson)

"Whilst reading I had such a tremendous empathy with you that believing us to be so alike, I just could not credit that you would become a serial killer at any point, since I myself have not. It therefore made me uncomfortable when our similarities apparently diverged and in the action of the book, you did something which I would not-- how to explain that to myself? Am I also a serial killer but for the grace of god?"

okyhroe

"There were particular moments when I broke into manic giggles, only to be followed by tears (over my own painful adolescence). Quite a catharsis for me."


morpha

"Here's this deep, murky story, and all of a sudden it turns into a fairy tale of sorts...I think that is one of the most deviant things about your book."

Arwen-Galadriel

"I agree with salinger007 that the book was extremely well-written. For me the flow and tempo...were perfect...I am glad that I read the book and would definitely recommend it to people wanting something different."

Semioticghost

"Remarkable story...Why?...because 'Monstrous' is not a story that can have been easy to tell, yet [it] is told eloquently, without prettifying or making excuses for its occasional crassness."

ukbrat

"This book provided interesting reading material...A very Freudian look at human development."

daidy

"The treks Walker takes...to different parts of the country remind me of McCandless in 'Into the Wild'."

"I could hand 'Monstrous' to someone and say, "Here, this guy is a good writer. The book is long and messed up and you might not like it, and you're not going to like him at times, but it's still worth reading if you can get through it."

ladyofunicorns

"A well-written book following the mind of a boy into becoming a man and how he tries to fit in society which he really doesn't, at least not in a normal way. Or as we think normal. He was just the way he was."

jarrett622

"A shocking book to be sure. The things talked about by Tommy and the things he describes doing. The writer has much talent...the ability to make me visualize exactly what was being described."

"It took immense courage to not only write so openly and honestly about what you thought and did but also for you to see yourself so clearly and honestly. You spared yourself in nothing when looking at yourself. You were clear and objective. Not many people can put aside ego and the self-protectiveness we all seem to instinctively have against exposure, to see ourselves so clearly."

Amanida

"I felt a tremendous admiration for Tommy...a stunning and unique read."

serenityblue

"wow interesting book though the man is a bit of a narcissist."

AnonymousFinder

Book is extremely well written. I would like the writer to follow up with another book that is without lies. Use his own name, own his story. Face his fear.

grover3d

"As a diary of a [boy's] life, it is amazing."

LadyGothic

"It felt naughty peeking into your private diary and it certainly was interesting. You have a wonderful writing style."

fayking

"...wasn't at all what I was expecting but it's pretty well written."

starbytes

"I think this is his 'Monstrous' side (duh!), the Hyde side of him, the crudest, most honest, animal instinctual, barbarian side, that's bared in this book. But I believe that a person's personality has more than one aspect, and while we're not obviously seeing the good side of him, I believe we can find it between the lines."

XLonelyGuy (my correspondence chess buddy)

"It strikes me that Tommy writes like he plays chess; patient, careful, systematic. He likes to 'set his stall out' over days, sometimes weeks before the stage is set for the pounce-- which often comes from a completely different direction from the one you expected."

meshe

"I was...blown away by the title. That someone was willing to describe themselves as a "serial killer but for the grace of God" was amazing. Or was I being too literal? Maybe we could all describe ourselves in that way."

BigBoss

"i only got to page 30, i found it totally uninteresting and dull."

mystic-nz

"I thought it was terrible and written by an egotistical writer. I don't believe he remembers half the things he said he did as a child."


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