118 reviews for:

Fatal Vision

Joe McGinniss

3.91 AVERAGE

millib's review

3.0
mysterious medium-paced
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imyourmausoleum's review

3.0
informative medium-paced

 Jeffrey MacDonald graduated from medical school in 1968. He joined an internship program for thoracic surgery the same year. He recalled this time as being very stressful, and as being exhausted and mentally drained. He was commissioned in the US Army in 1969, where he applied to become a Special Forces doctor. In the wee hours of February 17th, 1970, he called the military police to report a stabbing in his home. This case took a turn, which I won't spoil here for those who haven't heard of the case. This whole case was wild.

This case is featured on The Last Podcast on the Left for those who follow that reading list. It was also featured on an Unsolved Mysteries special. The book was decent and outlined the case and investigation well. 
challenging dark informative tense slow-paced
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mbellsamantha's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 36%

This is so extremely detailed, but the details are not interesting. I gave up and read bits of the wikipedia page instead and got zero impression I'm missing out at all by not finishing.
dark sad slow-paced
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ashrc's review

4.0
informative sad fast-paced

graceprestley's review

3.0
challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced
dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced
dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

badseedgirl's review

4.0

I remember my mother reading this book when I was a kid. I also might or might not have seen the miniseries based on this book. This was incredibly detailed account of the case against Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. It follows what became a very complicated case that took a decade to conclude.

I enjoy true crime stories and this has to be included as one of the original OG's in the field.