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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
dark
informative
medium-paced
dark
informative
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
informative
reflective
fast-paced
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
dark
informative
medium-paced
A fascinating, although morbid, read. The beginning is more autobiographical, but once you get to the cases, the book really picks up.
Tho, two of my gripes are that every female victim is described as having been beautiful, and black people being reffered to as "blacks" during one chapter.
Despite that, I found the stories about profiling very interesting, and I love that Douglas doens't hold back by calling these murderers what they are: unremarkable, losers and nobodies.
Tho, two of my gripes are that every female victim is described as having been beautiful, and black people being reffered to as "blacks" during one chapter.
Despite that, I found the stories about profiling very interesting, and I love that Douglas doens't hold back by calling these murderers what they are: unremarkable, losers and nobodies.
I listened to the audio book.
This book is 2 stars for me because I know I will forget that I ever read it. I finished it 3 hours ago and I already forgot I had finished a book today.
It was an interesting read, short and to the point.
The books does read very much like "I did this, then this happened and then this happened" but I think this was unavoidable. 1. Due to the writers not being authors, they are lecturers and FBI professionals. 2. The development of the science of profiling is built heavily on experience and noticing patterns that multiple criminals present. So it was very much "this is the crime I was sent in to help with, and this is what I did".
I would have liked more information on profiling itself, a more factual version of what Criminal Minds does of "this behaviour often characterises this behaviour and this is the psychology of why". But this was more built on his personal experience so I don't blame the book for not including this.
I would definitely check trigger warnings, obviously this is a book about serial killers and they do some awful things. Please read with caution.
This book is 2 stars for me because I know I will forget that I ever read it. I finished it 3 hours ago and I already forgot I had finished a book today.
It was an interesting read, short and to the point.
The books does read very much like "I did this, then this happened and then this happened" but I think this was unavoidable. 1. Due to the writers not being authors, they are lecturers and FBI professionals. 2. The development of the science of profiling is built heavily on experience and noticing patterns that multiple criminals present. So it was very much "this is the crime I was sent in to help with, and this is what I did".
I would have liked more information on profiling itself, a more factual version of what Criminal Minds does of "this behaviour often characterises this behaviour and this is the psychology of why". But this was more built on his personal experience so I don't blame the book for not including this.
I would definitely check trigger warnings, obviously this is a book about serial killers and they do some awful things. Please read with caution.
This book was a disappointment for me. I, like everyone else, came to this book after watching the Netflix series. However, it is clear to me now that they (David Fincher) did a lot of work to streamline this story. The truth is....sadly....realty is just not as entertaining as fiction. The good guys are not as good, they are just ambitious and lucky, and the the bad guys are not as smart and interesting, they are just ignorant and angry. Hannibal Lecture doesn't exists just like Clarice Starling doesn't exists. Douglas shows his true self when talking about his colleagues. We see that he is arrogant and misogynistic and after decades have passed chooses to focuses on building his own mythology. Perhaps his super human ability to categorize and profiling people is a double edged sword. I enjoyed his second book much more than this where he focused more on cases than himself. This book is not terrible and Douglas has done a lot of important work. However, this book is just not my cup of tea. I hope others enjoy it more than I did and those that don't find solace that someone else didn't either.