I really can’t recommend this book for casual readers, if you have an interest in true crime novels then you may want to give it a go but be prepared for some quite sickening moments. It’s a chance to see the inner workings of some of the world’s most terrifying serial killers and criminals. A veces la realidad supera la ficción, y los West son para mí la personificación de toda aquella maldad que vive en nosotros, esa oscuridad que mantenemos oculta y a raya, a la espera de una oportunidad, para cometer los actos más crueles. No hay dudas sobre la capacidad de investigacion de Gordon Burn, pero al momento de plasmar toda esa investigacion/conocimiento encuentro grandes fallas.

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Yet in different ways Capote and Burn conduct similar investigations of the surface of everyday life and the undercurrent of violence and perversion it conceals. Fans can find their fix in many different formats, but sometimes nothing is better than getting lost in a gripping book. In Cold Blood circles around a single, explosive act of violence: two drifters, believing a Kansas farmer to be in possession of a small fortune, break into his house and, when they discover an empty safe, murder the whole family. And I can't say I was glad to either - on one hand, it was good to get to the end of an exceedingly tough book but even after you finish it tends to linger in the mind for a good long while. La estructura del libro no sigue un hilo coherente, salta de temas una y otra vez, revisita temas ya expuestos hasta el hartazgo, sinceramente leer a Gordon Burn es agotador.This copy has been read, and the pages are tanning because the publisher used poor quality paper, but this copy also has the supreme distinction of being signed on the title page. I suppose you really want to find what shaped them into 'monsters', what makes them different to you and me. So many books that I've read end up making easy reads out of other people's pain; they make evil interesting and palatable. El autor repite una y otra vez la preferencia de Rosemary por hombres de raza negra, lo menciona mas de diez veces.

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For example, the question of how many more murders, other than the twelve that went to trial, were committed really needed to be mentioned more fully.Acclaim for Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son was followed by similar receptions for Alma Cogan (1991), which won the Whitbread first novel award the following year, and Burn's second novel, Fullalove, which made the Booker's 20-strong "long shortlist" in 1995.

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Compelling and based on the life and actions of the most unusual of killers, Raoul Moat, You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life is written by Andrew Hankinson, a local to the area Moat grew up in. She seems to enjoy her position as Fred’s sex slave, to glory in her role as the woman who can’t be satisfied, the gaping hole which no man can completely fill.

From podcasts to television and movies to dedicated conventions, the world’s love for true crime shows no sign of stopping. The bowel cancer from which Burns died was diagnosed only recently, and it is not yet clear whether his latest novel, set in Rome in the 1950s and again illuminated by coincidences, will be published posthumously. But that's not how I rate books; my ratings are based on cobbling together the average of objective quality and my own enjoyment, and I didn't enjoy this book at all.

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Comprendí que la maldad es infinita y todo es parte de un gran círculo vicioso, donde nada se acaba o disminuye, solo aumenta.Brutal’ and ‘senseless’ are, of course, the terms customarily used to describe such crimes, part of the mechanism by which a society distances itself from the horror it discovers in its midst; the most common epithets for the perpetrators are ‘monster’ and ‘madman’. Creo, muy seriamente, que este libro en las manos equivocadas podría crear desgracias, pues a través de la muy detallada narrativa de los horrores de Cromwell Street lo lleva a uno a entender las entrañas del mal, a pensar como lo hicieron aquellos responsables de cosas horrorosas, a tener esas imágenes e ideas en la cabeza. From the start he was clear to the point of truculence about what he was and was not interested in, and over the years he showed such constancy of vision and fixity of purpose that his became a strong and unique voice. I can't imagine what writing it did to Gordon Burn, but reading his fiction - which is excellent, and heartbreaking - will probably give you some idea. His first book Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son was a study of Peter Sutcliffe, 'the Yorkshire Ripper' and his 1998 book Happy Like Murderers: The Story of Fred and Rosemary West, dealt in similar detail with one of Britain's most notorious serial killers.