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Talking with Serial Killers: A Chilling Study of the World's Most Evil People by Christopher Berry-Dee
1.0
Terrible, terrible book.
I was fascinated to read it because the subject matter is right up my street, and having read the author's credentials, had really high hopes. However, unfortunately this book turned out to be absolutely dreadful, populist claptrap. The author was much more interested in judging and self-aggrandising than providing a good narrative. The book was terribly written with zero insights that you might expect from the 'expert' writer.
Do yourself a favour, and give this one a miss. You will not be missing anything!
I was fascinated to read it because the subject matter is right up my street, and having read the author's credentials, had really high hopes. However, unfortunately this book turned out to be absolutely dreadful, populist claptrap. The author was much more interested in judging and self-aggrandising than providing a good narrative. The book was terribly written with zero insights that you might expect from the 'expert' writer.
Do yourself a favour, and give this one a miss. You will not be missing anything!
The Last Family in England by Matt Haig
4.0
TW for book: suicide, infidelity, death of animals.
This was a humourous, astute and heartbreaking book in equal measures. Like in a Shakespearean tragedy, you can sense the inevitability of the ending throughout, but it still catches you off guard somehow.
Matt Haig explores the meaning of family, loyalty, love and tradition, and delivers this in a simple narrative through the unusual perspective of the Judge family's dog, Prince.
This books reads fast, but I think it will stay with me a while.
This was a humourous, astute and heartbreaking book in equal measures. Like in a Shakespearean tragedy, you can sense the inevitability of the ending throughout, but it still catches you off guard somehow.
Matt Haig explores the meaning of family, loyalty, love and tradition, and delivers this in a simple narrative through the unusual perspective of the Judge family's dog, Prince.
This books reads fast, but I think it will stay with me a while.