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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
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Could not put this down. Fascinating.
And a half*
There is no doubt that Ann Rule did a great deal of research and investigation; however, I found the book challenging to read. There are so many details and information that I couldn't keep track of, so many names and dates that the events eventually got mixed up in my head. I found the writing style lacking creativity, it made me bored at some parts that I would stop reading immediately. But I always picked up the book again because I wanted to know more about Ted Bundy. What's certain is that Ann succeeded in portraying Ted's story in a way that made him look somehow pitiful. She could,through her writing, show the other side of him, his good side. Yet even with Ann showing the whole picture of Ted Bundy, the small good side of him blurs out in front of his cruelty and monstrosity.
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some of my favorite quotes by Ted Bundy:
"There can never be any goodbyes for Meg and I, but I weep bitterly to think that there can be no more hellos."
"Dear Ann,
Just returned from Brazil and found your letters piled up in my post office box here in Glenwood. Jesus, you must have thought I got lost in the jungles down there. I actually went down there to find out where the sons of bitches are hiding the 11 billion tons of coffee they say the bad weather destroyed. Didn’t find any coffee but brought back 400 pounds of cocaine.''
"What I am experiencing now is an entirely new dimension of loneliness mixed with resignation and calm. Unlike times of low morale I have survived in the past, I know I will not wake up in the morning refreshed and revived. I will wake up knowing only what has to be done—if I have the courage."
There is no doubt that Ann Rule did a great deal of research and investigation; however, I found the book challenging to read. There are so many details and information that I couldn't keep track of, so many names and dates that the events eventually got mixed up in my head. I found the writing style lacking creativity, it made me bored at some parts that I would stop reading immediately. But I always picked up the book again because I wanted to know more about Ted Bundy. What's certain is that Ann succeeded in portraying Ted's story in a way that made him look somehow pitiful. She could,through her writing, show the other side of him, his good side. Yet even with Ann showing the whole picture of Ted Bundy, the small good side of him blurs out in front of his cruelty and monstrosity.
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some of my favorite quotes by Ted Bundy:
"There can never be any goodbyes for Meg and I, but I weep bitterly to think that there can be no more hellos."
"Dear Ann,
Just returned from Brazil and found your letters piled up in my post office box here in Glenwood. Jesus, you must have thought I got lost in the jungles down there. I actually went down there to find out where the sons of bitches are hiding the 11 billion tons of coffee they say the bad weather destroyed. Didn’t find any coffee but brought back 400 pounds of cocaine.''
"What I am experiencing now is an entirely new dimension of loneliness mixed with resignation and calm. Unlike times of low morale I have survived in the past, I know I will not wake up in the morning refreshed and revived. I will wake up knowing only what has to be done—if I have the courage."
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informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Ann Rule is an incredible story teller. This is a very vulnerable piece of her work and life and I am grateful to have read it. Lost half a star because there is too much rhetoric that he is some incredible mastermind. He was just as anyone else, if not less. It’s not impressive to win a game no one else is playing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder
Just found out I stayed in the same CO hotel where he snatched one of his victims...yikes.
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sad
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Though not well written, the author had such a unique position in the Ted Bundy narrative that it's an incredibly interesting read (and worthy of a psychological evaluation as to personal perspective).
Proof that maybe you don't know someone as well as you think you do.
Ted Bundy was the model for law enforcement to learn what a true sociopath was.
Ted Bundy was the model for law enforcement to learn what a true sociopath was.
I think this would have been better if it had been 100 pages shorter, but Rule gives a fascinating perspective of the notorious Ted Bundy. He was not only her volunteer partner for a year, but a close friend, showing just how manipulative he was through his friendly letters, phone calls and Christmas cards to her. Rule announced again and again that, although there was an eerily Ted-like composite drawing, that a witness had heard the name "Ted," that he drove a tan VW with rust on the hood, that gruesome murders of young college women followed him to Oregon and Utah and Florida, it was silly to think that one of the most infamous serial killers in American history could have been her friend Ted...showing just how good Ted was at being a sociopath.
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