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Title: An Evening With JonBenet Ramsey by Walter›A.››› Davis ISBN: 0-595-30968-2 Publisher: Authors Choice Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Necessary Reading
Comment: I have a difficult time watching movies or reading stories that contain painful or troubling images because those images tend to stay with me for a long, long time. So for me to read a serious literary work on an emotionally provocative topic, it has to be extremely good, extremely worth the pain, or I won't do it. Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, I have found, are always worth the pain. In fact, they have taught me that letting myself feel pain in order to know something of the pain my fellow human beings have come through, is an honorable endeavor. That's how I feel about AN EVENING WITH JONBENET RAMSEY. Davis's play, and the commentaries that follow it, have taught me so much about the human heart--both about its most frightening capacities and about its most courageous possibilities--that I feel a better person for having read it.

Rating: 5
Summary: wholesight
Comment: John Fowles wrote this startling sentence: "Wholesight: or all the rest is desolation." In our time, certainly a time of desolation, do not all of us search for "wholesight"? But what would wholesight be like if we found it? We know it would combine the imagination's ability to project and explore existential and emotional possibilities with reason's ability to deal with the recalcitrant world of facts. What is so surprising and original with Walter A. Davis's book, An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey, is that he shows us "wholesight" in two forms: as art and as essay.

For those familiar with the comforts of partial perspectives, Davis's play is sure to be misinterpreted. His dramatic projection of JonBenet's life into a future gives us insights impossible in any other way; insights every bit as real as any of the facts he has so meticulously researched. In this short space, all I can say is that for those willing to undergo the demands, or what Davis calls the "agon" of real art, the play is an experience of exceptional power.

I found the essays, as orginal, and in some ways, as powerful as the play. For once again, they show this elusive qualilty of "wholesight": not just showing multiple perspectives, but a fusion of perspectives. Read the essays and you will see what I mean.

If you are, like me, in search of a new way of thinking about the issues of our time, even in search of a new ethic--one based on wholesight, then you cannot find a better, more exemplary work.

Rating: 1
Summary: Rude, crude, lewd and WRONG
Comment: Walter Davis wrote a book about an abused woman and the aftermath of the crimes that overwhelmed her - - from the book it seems he befriended a victim who told him her story. Fine - - he has a right to write his book and if he has the heart to deal with his friend's harsh reality - - more power to him.

But this book is using the name of a real child - and it is totally WRONG in saying the crimes included were committed against that person - JonBenét Ramsey.

I know the Ramsey story - I know the evidence and the people - and I know Davis is simply wrong. A federal judge and the DA in charge of the case publicly state that the evidence supports the Intruder theory - but Davis lays the crime at the feet of the parents - not only the murder but other crimes - - horrible crimes against the child and her spirit.

Personally, I felt the book was porn - if written by the victim I might have forgiven it as some kind of therapy writing - but for Davis to write this and go on the Internet to RAMSEY sites pushing his book - - I think it was exploitive at best - - but actually worse than that, I thought it was misleading, nasty, dancing on the grave of an innocent child - all for a buck.

I would not recommend the book - it was not a good read, it was not entertaining or enlightening. It was misinforming and rude, crude, lewd and just ..... wrong.