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Summary: Astonishing, brilliant, soul-shaking
Review: "Compassion" seems to be in short supply when it comes to Karla Faye Tucker --- starting with then-Gov. Bush's smirk on the occasion of her execution and continuing in these reader comments. This she-got-what-she-deserved feeling stems, I think, from the view that People Don't Change. What grim philosophy! Change --- the hope of it, the longing for it --- is, in fact, what drives most evangelical religions. Given that, you'd think Karla Faye Tucker would be the Poster Child for Christian conversion. She never denied the terrible crimes she committed, she prostrated herself before her Lord, and, if you believe her, Jesus bathed herin His love. That is the subject of the book Beverly Lowry has written --- a book powered by a head-splitting irony: The murderesss gives comfort to the professional writer (a mother whose son was killed in an unsolved highway accident). My advice: Just read the book. Decide for yourself.
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Summary: Astonishing, brilliant, soul-shaking
Review: "Compassion" seems to be in short supply when it comes to Karla Faye Tucker --- starting with then-Gov. Bush's smirk on the occasion of her execution and continuing in these reader comments. This she-got-what-she-deserved feeling stems, I think, from the view that People Don't Change. What grim philosophy! Change --- the hope of it, the longing for it --- is, in fact, what drives most evangelical religions. Given that, you'd think Karla Faye Tucker would be the Poster Child for Christian conversion. She never denied the terrible crimes she committed, she prostrated herself before her Lord, and, if you believe her, Jesus bathed herin His love. That is the subject of the book Beverly Lowry has written --- a book powered by a head-splitting irony: The murderesss gives comfort to the professional writer (a mother whose son was killed in an unsolved highway accident). My advice: Just read the book. Decide for yourself.
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Summary: Not Recommended
Review: As one of the people who is intimately involved in the case that this literary piece is supposed to be realistically portraying, I am surprised that anyone could believe that any of this actually happened the way the author portrays it. The convicted murderer is shown as being a wonderful person. I have not met too many "wonderful" people who are capable of swinging a pick axe into two different people more than 60 different times and enjoying it so much that they told several people that they had a sexual orgasm with each swing. That is sick. This was not an isolated incident; within a day after the first two murders, this individual was planning several more murders which would have been carried out if she had not been apprehended. She had no religion and no remorse until AFTER she was in jail. The reason I know all this? Tucker murdered my wife, Deborah Ruth Thornton. Don't waste your money on this trash.
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Summary: Not Recommended
Review: I am shaking as I write this. I have never read something so biased and so upsetting in my life. I am more convinced than ever after reading this book that Karla Faye Tucker got exactly what she deserved. This book portrays her as some sort of wonderful, mislead, genuine person who made a mistake. I am stunned beyond belief at this portrayal of a murderer. It sounds to me after reading this book, that Karla Faye did not make any genuine changes, she just simply learned how to play the game, and in this case ultimately and fortunatley did not win.
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Summary: Lowry's talent makes the "unthinkable" readable.
Review: Lowry's way with words and with the flow of the story is exquisitely rendered. She has told a story that is far, far too hard to tell and made the reader glad she did. She weaves the tragedy of her own son's death with the horror of Karla Faye Tucker's life and crime and death with such a soft touch and consummate skill it can only be a gift. I am a voracious reader and can tell you that I've never read a harder story to tell, told with so much light, so much compassion, so much beauty, so much gut-wrenching honesty. I have worked with abused people and with people who have experienced great losses, and I learned from this book. Thank you, Ms. Lowry, for giving us your bone marrow in this one.
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Summary: Someone write about her victims
Review: The author seemed all too willing to forget what Ms. Tucker did. No matter how "rehabilitated" a murderer claims to be or how much they claim to to have "changed", that does not bring back their victim(s).(I feel sorry for Richard Thornton's loss, but what was his wife Deborah doing in another man's apartment in the middle of the night. I don't think I would mourn the loss of a spouse who cheated on me. I also cannot believe how the victims' siblings could buy her act and forgive her.) Question: would Pat Robertson have plead for the life of a murderer who'd "converted" to Judaism or <gasp!> Islam?
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Summary: Someone write about her victims
Review: The author seemed all too willing to forget what Ms. Tucker did. No matter how "rehabilitated" a murderer claims to be or how much they claim to to have "changed", that does not bring back their victim(s). (I feel sorry for Richard Thornton's loss, but what was his wife Deborah doing in another man's apartment in the middle of the night. I don't think I would mourn the loss of a spouse who cheated on me. I also cannot believe how the victims' siblings could buy her act and forgive her.) Question: would Pat Robertson have plead for the life of a murderer who'd "converted" to Judaism or Islam?
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Summary: Karla Faye Tucker knew how to put on the sweet girl act.
Review: This book is one of the most in depth and intensive examinations of a death row inmate (now deceased) and the reasons she got there. Like its subject, Karla Faye, the book does not revel in the crime committed but makes it extremely clear that it was a terrible thing for a person to do. As is the death penalty. I challenge even the most committed death penalty supporter to read this book and still believe that the State of Texas did the right thing on Febraury the third of this year.
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