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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
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Okay then. This is a book that I read.
What makes this book so ridiculously engrossing is that Ann Rule knew Ted Bundy. That fact also often frustrated me because she sends him money and takes forever to believe he's guilty. Writing the book in that way, however, was a brave choice. The whole idea of sociopaths is that she didn't know. Several people in his life didn't know. It's really easy to look back and get angry at the people who were manipulated by him, but manipulating is what he did best.
That said, I needed to take a shower after this because ugh, and I think I'll pass on all of the documentaries and movies and whatnot. Ol' Ted doesn't deserve any more of my attention.
What makes this book so ridiculously engrossing is that Ann Rule knew Ted Bundy. That fact also often frustrated me because she sends him money and takes forever to believe he's guilty. Writing the book in that way, however, was a brave choice. The whole idea of sociopaths is that she didn't know. Several people in his life didn't know. It's really easy to look back and get angry at the people who were manipulated by him, but manipulating is what he did best.
That said, I needed to take a shower after this because ugh, and I think I'll pass on all of the documentaries and movies and whatnot. Ol' Ted doesn't deserve any more of my attention.
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She reiterated that she was not attracted to Ted, but she was obviously one of his groupies. She sent him money and was indifferent to his crimes until she finally saw all the brutal evidence. She says she trusted and respected the cops. I’ve worked with cops and her description of them is accurate. If she would have trusted them as she said then she would have known that he was guilty long before.
Ted was evil. He was vile. However I feel I learned more about Ms. Rule than I did about him.
Ted was evil. He was vile. However I feel I learned more about Ms. Rule than I did about him.
I’m a pretty enormous chicken shit, but while reading the graphic memoir “Murder Book,” I was finally motivated to pick up this classic. I knew very little about Bundy. FUCK THAT GUY. WTF. I’m still stunned by the odd circumstances of this story and friendship. Ann Rule is so prolific; I’m curious to read more of her work. Kinda want to read more about Bundy as well, but why??
I was sure that I would get spooked reading this, but I was able to sleep every night without issue.
I watched the Netflix "Shocking and Vile" and thought it was alright. Well acted. But I was interested in the true story version so I checked this out. It was alright. Serial killers aren't as interesting to me, but I might check out other crime books by Ann Rule because I liked her style.
I think I might be losing my marbles. I could have sworn I already reviewed this book and added a new one I was reading, but Goodreads kept telling me otherwise, so I must be behind on this just like everything else lately.
As for the book. Ann Rule seems like a strange woman. In the late 60s, when everyone at college is a long-haired hippie dropping acid and protesting the war, the man she found most appealing was a clean cut Republican boy who turns out to be a serial killer. Also, Ann Rule clearly wanted us to believe how darn naive she was at the time and during the time Ted Bundy was killing people and even after he'd be caught. She never wants us to think for a moment that she knew anything about what Ted was doing, or drew any logical conclusions and just went along with it anyway, or that she wanted to be friends with Ted regardless of the fact that he abused and murdered young women. At one point she even comments on her own naivete. I'm not sure I was totally buying what she was selling, and she almost made Ted Bundy a sympathetic character as for most of the book its like she's talking about two different people. We get very little about Ann's personal feelings on discovering that her special friend Ted is a horrible monster.
I did learn a lot about Ted Bundy I didn't know. I didn't realize that Ted Bundy started out so local, starting out in Seattle and killing around the northwest before moving on to Utah, Colorado, and Florida. Ann Rule doesn't glamorize or go into great detail about what Ted did to his victims, she states the facts plainly and doesn't sensationalize much. I've read other books where the point seemed to be to revel in the sick twisted things the killer did, and this was very much removed from that kind of book. Perhaps Ann didn't want to dwell on the terrible things her friend did, or perhaps she just isn't a sicko who wants to sensationalize brutal murders. I also think that a book about the relationship between Anne Rule and Ted Bundy that wasn't written by Ann might be more interesting.
I got interested in this book because of this article in the New Yorker, which wondered when exactly Ann Rule knew Ted Bundy was a serial killer and the relationship between them: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/too-close-to-ted-bundy
As for the book. Ann Rule seems like a strange woman. In the late 60s, when everyone at college is a long-haired hippie dropping acid and protesting the war, the man she found most appealing was a clean cut Republican boy who turns out to be a serial killer. Also, Ann Rule clearly wanted us to believe how darn naive she was at the time and during the time Ted Bundy was killing people and even after he'd be caught. She never wants us to think for a moment that she knew anything about what Ted was doing, or drew any logical conclusions and just went along with it anyway, or that she wanted to be friends with Ted regardless of the fact that he abused and murdered young women. At one point she even comments on her own naivete. I'm not sure I was totally buying what she was selling, and she almost made Ted Bundy a sympathetic character as for most of the book its like she's talking about two different people. We get very little about Ann's personal feelings on discovering that her special friend Ted is a horrible monster.
I did learn a lot about Ted Bundy I didn't know. I didn't realize that Ted Bundy started out so local, starting out in Seattle and killing around the northwest before moving on to Utah, Colorado, and Florida. Ann Rule doesn't glamorize or go into great detail about what Ted did to his victims, she states the facts plainly and doesn't sensationalize much. I've read other books where the point seemed to be to revel in the sick twisted things the killer did, and this was very much removed from that kind of book. Perhaps Ann didn't want to dwell on the terrible things her friend did, or perhaps she just isn't a sicko who wants to sensationalize brutal murders. I also think that a book about the relationship between Anne Rule and Ted Bundy that wasn't written by Ann might be more interesting.
I got interested in this book because of this article in the New Yorker, which wondered when exactly Ann Rule knew Ted Bundy was a serial killer and the relationship between them: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/too-close-to-ted-bundy
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while I think it was a well-written book, the story if Ted is annoying. I can get over how everyone did whatever he wanted when he was incarcerated. I don't understand how Rule stayed his friend. pure manipulation.