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Summary: to much legal information
Review: i felt that for a case that was so unbelivable there was just a lot of missing gaps as to how a person could be manpulated into not running away at there first chance of freedom no mater what might happen to her even death would be better than to endure 7 years of continuous torture and abuse but i guess mabey if we were told more about her past mabey we could get a idea what kind of mental state she was in when she was kidnapped. also there was just to much legal information to keep the full attention of the average person but lets not forget this book was written by a attorney what do you expect its a slow read book so if you loose interest very fast this is not the book for you.
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Summary: Hard-to-put down!
Review: I first heard about this book from my mother who read it years ago. I finished the book in three days flat. Alternating between working/reading while at work, I could not stop reading this book. The author (also the prosecutor)did an excellent job of writing=however, she did fail to explain how Colleen Hooker was indeed the "Perfect Victim." The horrendous details of how she was captured, tortured and brainwashed for several years is unimaginable. I'm not sure if I am still in shock because she never left when she had the chance or the fact that she believed Cameron's blatant lies for so long. Either way, Colleen Hooker is a true survivor!
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Summary: A Fascinating Read
Review: I first read this book almost 8 years ago. I have read it several times since, and continue to think it is well written, although creepy. How anyone could be brainwashed as Colleen Stan was, is almost unbelievable. But for all you women out there, do you remember being 20 and gullible. It can, and did, happen. I would like to use this book as a semi-teaching tool for young females. If they can recognize the signs, then they can prevent something similar happening again. This book is pretty graphic, but still a fascinating read.
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Summary: Unbelievable, yet gruesomely true!
Review: I have not been able to put this book down! It is inconceivable what Colleen went through for 7 years! For one to be brainwashed and led to believe in so much Hooker said is unreal! However, I do believe it can happen and being young and naive as she was, she knew nothing else. My heart goes out to Colleen and anyone else who has ever endured the loss of identity in such an unbelievable and disturbing way!
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Summary: Reading The Book The Perfect Victim
Review: I have purchased this book called "The Perfect Victim" and I have found this book very interesting. I can tell you this was a real page turner for me. It gives insight on what the young lady was going through and how the suspect and his family were able to maintain a "normal" life to outsiders. I think people should think twice about hitchhiking because they can wind up like this young lady or even worse.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read!
Review: I have read this book over and over, and it still scares me to death that something like this could ever happen. I have suggested it to many friends who want to start reading true crime. This book hooked me into only reading true crime. A true page turner.
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Summary: Scary!
Review: I read this book a few years ago, and I could still remember clearly how chilling this story was. The young woman who was kidnapped by the nerdy looking man while his wife and child were in the car made you realize that everything isn't always what it seems. I recently saw this story profiled on "American Justice" and it was amazing....
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Summary: This Story Is Absolutely Terrifying
Review: I read this book several years ago and IT TERRIFIED ME. I simply cannot fathom how one human being could do this to another person...oh, wait a sec, Hooker's not human, he's a monster! The atrocities this man committed made Hell look downright appealing...that man better hope he lives a long, long time because it will take eternity to come up with an answer for this on Judgement Day! Oh, and one other thing, this should really serve as a lesson for folks who hitchhike or easily open up to strangers! I got purely claustraphobic reading about the headbox, the box under the bed...I found myself twitching, wanting to flex, wanting to run out in the open!!! I saw Colleen Stan on Hard Copy back in 1995, she had gotten married, had a child, and was living some semblence of a normal life. Things appeared "normal" on the outside but surely has got to be tortured by the memories, nightmares...Godspeed to Colleen for health healing.
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Summary: perfectly disgusting
Review: i read this book when i was taking classes at Cabrillo College, in Santa Cruz , CA. i dint read it because required but because i didnt think it was possible for some thing so bizzar to actually happen. well i was wrong . and it totoally made me sick to think about how a person could get so brain washed for it to continue. Ms. McGuire and Ms.Norton wrote this book with all the objectivity and compassion possible, though, i believe that i would have been hard for me not to kill the guy outright ....but thats just me.
i think this book is a way to show that the human spirt goes on even after a horrible incident such as this. Kudos to the writers and the woman who had the guts to perservere!
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Summary: unimaginable
Review: I read tis book a few years back and still cannot get over the way she was brainwashed to the full extent. I have never heard of any case that even gets near what she went through for such a long length of time. A msut read for true crime buffs.
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