Psycho

Never having seen Hitchcock’s screenplay of Psycho before, I had no idea of what to expect from the story. In fact, I was reading under the assumption that the book was actually written from the film--Hitchcock’s quote on the back cover of the novel finally clued me in. I had always thought that the shower scene was the climax to the movie, but after reading it at the end of chapter three, I knew whatever impressions I had thought I had about the story were probably false.

What first caught my attention about the book was the quality of the writing--I was truly very impressed with the way Block put his words together in order to portray his ideas. He was also very descriptive; words were chosen carefully according to their connotations and meanings. All of these things tossed together made Psycho a very hard book to put down.

As far as the story itself went, I enjoyed it thoroughly. What interested me the most was how Bloch would tell one scene