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Title: Zodiac by Robert Graysmith ISBN: 0-425-09808-7 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.49 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read for any True Crime Addict
Comment: This book is a fast-paced, well-researched account of the Zodiac killer, who terrorized San Francisco in the mid to late sixtees. Serial killers often get caught or give themselves up. This one has remained elusive to this day. The accounts of the police ivestigations, tactics, and personal reactions were well written. I will always remember this book and its victims.
Rating: 5
Summary: Robert Graysmith's 'Zodiac' : why you should read it..
Comment: I'm English, from England. Ten years ago, I spent half of 1992 in the USA, travelling. I bought 'Zodiac' in NYC that June and proceeded to navigate anti-clockwise around the country : 'Zodiac' along with me, for the ride. On arriving in California and washing up at Vallejo, I sat on the hood of my car in a milky sunshine and reflected on the book I'd read twice by that time, watching the world go by....
Graysmith sets out in scarifying detail the creepy-crawly stuff that happened in the Bay Area in the Age Of Aquarius for which Zodiac is believed responsible. The narrative has pace and time and place : a vivid picture is painted as his investigation unfolds. The book describes a vile tragedy with verve and sympathy : nothing is mishandled and the result is a full-tilt entertainment. Because the elusive, cryptic Zodiac never was apprehended (at least not in the sense that he got captured), the tale remains intruiging in much the same way as that of Jack The Ripper. It is truly a mystery as to 'who' and 'why'.
I have read many 'classic' 'true-crime' accounts. For me, Zodiac is the best. You will not forget it.
Next month, Robert Graysmith's sequel - Zodiac Unmasked - to this original gets a release. I suspect that I'm far from alone in anticipating it.
That's because of this marvellous original. It's a (the) masterpiece of its kind and THAT's why you should read it. That's all
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard to put down
Comment: I'm amused at some of the reviews posted here regarding this tale. Some reviewers seem to think this book is Gospel, others seem to think it's fabrication. If any of them really know one way or the other, why don't they come forward and solve the case for us?
Gimme a break. The fact is that this book, although admittedly not written with the style and flair of a Capote or Crichton, is a personal account of one man's involvement in a remarkable case of a serial killer who came to be known as Zodiac. The author was working at the San Francisco Chronicle at the time the killings began, and that newspaper was central to the coverage of the gruesome, pointless killings perpetrated by the one or more individuals known as Zodiac.
There are inconsistencies in the book because it is a chronicle of the author's investigations. At one point he thinks a certain person is very involved, becomes convinced he's the guy, then later finds he's probably wrong. It's a maddening case for many reasons, and this book makes that clear. It's fascinating, and I found it very hard to put down. The website zodiackiller.com has arrived at different conclusions than this author, and they are equally valid and interesting. That does not negate the fact that this book is a good read, unless you're expecting a literary talent on the level of Tom Clancy or Stephen King.
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Title: The Night Stalker by Phillip Carlo ISBN: 0786013621 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of American's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed by Robert Graysmith ISBN: 0425183327 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Search for the Green River Killer by Carlton Smith ISBN: 0451402391 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry ISBN: 0393322238 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken ISBN: 0786014229 Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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