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Title: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399149325 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.41
Rating: 3
Summary: Good content, bad presentation
Comment: I was really excited to read this book, but I have to say, I was pretty disappointed by it. I guess if the goal was convince me that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper, then the goal was accomplished. The problem I had with the book is that the presentation was very hard to follow. The book was constantly jumping back and forth between Walters Sickerts history, the different murders and the present in a way that I found confusing. A timeline of when the murders occured (including the ones she speculates are done by Sickert, but are not thought of as "Jack the Ripper" murders) would have been helpful to try to see patterns. Another missing piece for me is why Jack the Ripper suddenly stopped. Patricia Cornwell speculates that he probably didn't stop committing murders, but why did he stop writing the letters? He obviously loved the attention it brought, so why stop after that had been his modus operandi for so long? The last criticism I had of the book is the ending. The book ended abruptly with the death of his 2nd (of 3) wife. Why end there? I couldn't believe when I turned the page and that was the end! There was no wrap up or conclusions of any kind.
For anyone who has always wondered who Jack the Ripper was, you must read this book. It's extremely detailed and as I said, convincing. Her insights into the psychopathic mind are fascinating. She also makes a strong case that Walter Sickert was a violent psychopath. However, you may find as I did that the book could have been much better had the presentation been clearer.
Rating: 2
Summary: If she said so ...
Comment: I just don't believe what I read in this book, first of all let me tell you that this book could be written in 50 pages, all the stories around the main story are boring and boring, and she compares what would happened if Jack the Ripper were alive in this days, how would you know that? When you write a story that really happened you don't compare what would happened if that story would be in our days.
I wrote a book of the story of Cleopatra and I wrote my novel in the Antarctica, but I never made any comparison if Cleopatra were alive today, you just can't do that.
I put 2 stars to this book because I just can't put one star to a book.
But at the end you really think that Patricia Cornwell knows who was Jack the Ripper?
Rating: 2
Summary: Mmmm, I don't think the case is closed
Comment: I've always had people tell me I needed to read some Patricia Cornwell. I've always been interested in Jack the Ripper so I thought I'd check this book out and see what she was all about. Apparently she's all about being self-indulgent and writing too many chapters which are basically her restating her already shaky evidence. This Sickert guy is an interesting guy to read about and, hell, he might actually be the guy, but it will take a whole lot more than the circumstantial and non-evidence Cornwell provides in this book. Going by what she writes, the only thing I'm positive about concerning Sickert is that he was a snooty guy who didn't treat his wife too fondly. Cornwell gets way too wordy and the book is just really repetitive as a lot of the same things get repeated over and over. Plus, she constantly reminds us about the handicaps that the police at the time were dealing with, but I'm sure they were not so inept that they didn't look at things like the watermark she is so fond of talking about. Check it out if you're a Cornwell fan or a Jack the Ripper nerd, but just don't expect too much.
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Title: Four Blind Mice by James Patterson ISBN: 0316693006 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 18 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Prey: A Novel by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0066214122 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell ISBN: 0671023616 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Q Is for Quarry by Sue Grafton ISBN: 0399149155 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 14 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452534 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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