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Title: Whoever Fights Monsters : My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI by Robert K. Ressler, Thomas Schachtman ISBN: 0-312-95044-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (43 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good addition to a True Crime Library
Comment: This book is very intriguing and has some good insights.
Truely a great writer and experienced criminologist, Ressler again gives us an amazing journey into the criminal mind. Highly recommended.
If only Mr Ressler would know that we are more interested in his insight and information then in his ego. Yes, with greatness comes ego, but he should save it for a autobiography (which I am sure would be 1199 pages thick!)
If you filter through his ego, you will discover a valuable addition to your collection
Rating: 2
Summary: I save almost every book, this one I threw away.
Comment: We all like hearing scary stories about monsters. This book provides a few of them. Because of its pulp horror novel quality it has some redeaming value. The negatives make it not only a bad read, but make me wish that I had not read it. 1) The author spends a lot of time tooting his own horn. This is fine, but you grow weary of it after a few chapters. It wouldn't be so annoying but because of the way he writes comes off as if he is trying too hard to make it sound like NOT bragging. Because of this I grew very aware of it, like when your tounge won't stop worrying at a new tooth-filling. 2) It grows very predictable. We get it! Serial killers are psychos who fit into patterns and act out fantasies. It isn't a surprise anymore once we learned this early in the book. 3) Ressler brags about his profile helping to send 4-5 Chicago teenagers to prison for a a grusome murder/rape. A decade after this book went to press DNA evidence and discovery of the real killers proved that these kids had been railroaded--unequivocally innocent. Ooops! This incredibly gross injustice wouldn't seem so terrible if Ressler didn't come off as such a judgemental, I-told-you-so-ing, J. Edgar Hoover loving cop's cop.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ego often accompanies greatness
Comment: Many people seem to be put-off by Ressler's "horn-tooting" in this book. Big deal! You're getting an insight into his psychology as well as those he hunts. Ego often accompanies greatness.
The read was fascinating. Ressler offers a dispassionate survey into the psychological make-up of serial killers and other disturbed individuals. Perhaps "dispassionate" is off the mark. He clearly has feelings and opinions, but offers them seperate from his analysis. Ressler doesn't like his subjects, nor approve of them, but he does understand them. His insights just make sense, as opposed to the odd ramblings of other authors on the subject.
Especially illuminating was his explanation of "Organized" and "Disorganized" killers. They have very different make-up and motivation. In addition, his side-by-side analysis of a couple dozen serial killers exposed patterns unavailable in a book solely about one killer, the majority of true crime books.
The resistance to the creation of a Behavioral Sciences Unit was unsurprising, given that the increased incidence of serial killers is a recent phenomena, growing since World War II.
I normally avoid True Crime books, but this one caught my eye, and kept my interest.
Wayne Gralian
Wayne's World of Books / Krakow RPGs
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Title: I Have Lived In The Monster : Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers by Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman ISBN: 0312964293 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas ISBN: 0671528904 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Anatomy of Motive : The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker ISBN: 0671023934 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind by Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud ISBN: 0312253427 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 19 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Journey into Darkness by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker ISBN: 0671003941 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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