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Title: The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Inside the Minds of Murderers by Jennifer Furio ISBN: 0-914783-84-X Publisher: The Charles Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (62 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: There are better ways to waste time
Comment: This book is a boring waste of time. The author doesn't include her letters, so the inmates' letters are sometimes difficult to follow. She probably chose to omit her correspondence because she hasn't always been truthful regarding her identity or her motives for writing and receiving the letters. The author could benefit from an ethics course at her local college. In the end, the reader has learned no more about these inmates than what is available about them elsewhere in much more interesting and better written books and articles. Do yourself a favor and waste your time with a less painfully boring endeavor.
Rating: 2
Summary: Excellent book to even out a wobbly table.
Comment: ...There is very little of interest in this book. One gets the impresson that Ms. Furio sent the same "opening letter" to masses of multiple killers and published anyone who responded more than 3 or 4 times. The book is poorly written, horribly edited, and worse - not even entertainingly voyeuristic.
Almost all of the serial killers in the book claim their innocence and want financial help in funding their appeal. The only story of any interest was from David Gore of Florida. However, his letters were so disgusting that I questioned the need to even put them into print. I wondered about the families that had to read his vivid recollections of his crimes.
I would recommend this book to anyone seeking a book to lull them into sleep, to throw at howling alley cats in heat, or to smash cockroaches. If you want a book to read and entertain you for any period of time - pass on this one.
--Kathryn White-Fidram
Rating: 3
Summary: The Uncertain review
Comment: Hmmm. This book has taken some hard hits i can see.
I could go either way with this one. If you would enjoy reading about the daily habits and evasion tactics of these killers, then you will enjoy the book. If you are searching for the fabled "answer" to a serial killers problem then you may want to look elsewhere. Moss didn't find it either. You have to ask yourself, considering that most of the men she contacted had never admitted their crimes before, why would they suddenly confess to a stranger on paper. Not likely. Since most of them are juggling appeals I doubt they would jepordize themselves for nothing. I agree with the other reviews comment that "Gore probably got off on reliving his crimes by writing them" and that is what makes him the exception in this book.
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Title: Serial Killers by Joel Norris ISBN: 0385263287 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter ISBN: 0671020749 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow ISBN: 0812910826 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 12 January, 1984 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton ISBN: 0816039798 Publisher: Facts on File, Inc. Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Last Victim, The: A True Life Journey Into the Mind of a Serial Killer by Jason Moss, Jeffrey Kottler ISBN: 0446608270 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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