Reviews

Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery by Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella

lisawhelpley's review

3.0

My husband and I like to read true crime books to each other. This book took us 23 months to finally finish. It's a crazy crime and a cast of crackpot characters, but did it compel us to keep reading? No.

readbyashleyd's review

dark informative slow-paced

3.0

I’m kind of right in the middle with this book, I didn’t love it but I didn’t hate it either. Some parts were incredibly interesting and completely held my attention while others had me just not caring and wanting to skim over them. Some parts were also quite repetitive, I only need to hear the same facts so many times before it starts to get annoying. The book could easily have been cut in half by taking away all the repetitiveness and it would have made it a much more interesting read. Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely fascinated with the Pizza Bomber story and the book was interesting at times, I just didn’t need to same facts thrown at me twenty different times. While some things about this book really frustrated me I do still think it’s worth a read if you’re morbidly obsessed with true crime and this fascinating case as I am. 

pagesofrachella's review

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

degeneratefromnj's review

2.0

For such an interesting case, this is such an uninteresting book.

keys_on_fire's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0