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Summary: same book?
Review: Don Davis also has a book about Dahmer titled The Milwaukee Murders
Nightmare in Apartment 213: The true story.
Is this the same book only with a different title?
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Summary: Unprofessional Work!
Review: Don Davis wanted to cash in on the public's fascination with Jeffery Dahmer. He wrote the first and best selling book about the serial killer. Unfortunately, it reads as if it was written by a high school student.The matter-of-fact language used by Davis tries to demonstrate that he knows more than we think. There really is nothing revolutionary about the book. It as if he took a timeline of Dahmer's life and expanded on it with cheap metaphors. It is cheaped further by the fact that the author keeps repeating himself each time he starts a new chapter. The other reviews of this book are accurate. It is not well written. Many facts are present, but they are poorly presented and hidden by frivilous information. As a result, this book has nothing to say. There must be better works on Dahmer's life than this.
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Summary: Good depiction of Jeffrey Dahmer
Review: I found this book to be very interesting! I learned a lot of information that I didn't know before hand... Really the only flaw I had with this book in the constant time change! Meaning first you read about 1991 and than about 1978 and then right back to 1991! Like I said first the information was wonderfully written, which helps move the book along so quickly. I found the information about Konerak Sinthasomphone to be very repetitive! It of course makes you feel terrible about how the police didn't even want to bother with him. In my copy of this book it has photos in the middle of Konerak and I cannot understand how police officer that work with people everyday can look at that CHILD and think he was an of age adult!!! That is a pure outrage... The information about the suspension of the officer involved was very good; I just wish that they didn't get their jobs back... because they most defiantly did not deserve them! I enjoyed reading ch. 21 "Fault Lines" very much! I found the Q & A's with Ashok Bedi to be very intriguing and was a good depiction of the subject Jeffrey Dahmer. For being the first real study into Jeffrey Dahmer, I found this book to be very good in letting the reader know all information needed to understand Dahmer in Childhood, Adulthood, general Life and Death. One of the best parts of this book is Dahmer; statement on his final day of the three week trail... " I knew I was sick or evil or both."
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Summary: Jeffrey Dahmer and a history of America...
Review: Originally published as the Milwaukee Murders and out within five months of Dahmer's arrest, this book is a poor telling of the serial killer's story, saved only by it's inclusion of the minor details, deemed, perhaps, insignificant by other case writers. It's flaws are in it's many factual errors and, oddly, tens of pages on completely unrelated history of nearby areas. Yes, so few were the details of the case at the time of writing that the author would just ramble off for five or so pages each second chapter (I am not exageratting) on the history of some nearby place. I would find myself at these times simply skimming pages til I saw the name Dahmer again.
There is good here though, as I said. Small and interesting details that I've not read elsewhere, often though given only brief attention: Dahmer was mugged several times; once woke up and found himself tied up and being sodomised with a candle stick; two suicide watch cops asked and received his autograph; Dahmer was once punished for having a small razorblade in his cell; that Paramount studios pulled the film `Body Parts' from the Milwaukee area as the Dahmer story emerged; Dahmer was wanted in suspicion with several other murders around America after his arrest, including the murder of a boy, Adam Walsh I believe, who was the son of America's Most Wanted host; and so on.
Details such as these, and there aren't much more then that, are all that are interesting here (This book, I should also note, was updated with an aditional chapter shortly after Dahmer's own death). If you're not entirely familar with the Dahmer case, or have not read a book on his yet, I suggest reading Brian Masters' The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer first.
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Summary: not much detail
Review: The book jumped around a lot. It didn't give much detail on anything much except how Konarek Sinthasomphone was handed back over to Dahmer. I wanted to know more about what happened and how he grew up and how his mind works. I guess this book is good for those who don't want to know the bloody details.
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Summary: Informative, but poorly written.
Review: This book has a lot of information about Dahmer's childhood, his early adult life, and his life as a serial killer. It also describes in detail his apartment, where he commited most of his murders, as well as his mode of killing. There are very brief descriptions about each of his victims, and how Dahmer met them and killed them. These descriptions are boring, and perhaps that is somewhat to be expected since Dahmer's method was so formulaic.
However, I was surprised by how poorly written this book is. It is filled with repetitive descriptions, stupid metaphors, and generally awkward sentences. Also, I was surprised that there was not more of an attempt to understand the man and his motivations. There is an interview with a psychiatrist, but it barely scratched the surface of Dahmer's psyche, and also roamed quite far off topic.
In summary, I read plenty of information about the man and his crimes, but doing so was not a pleasure.
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Summary: Little Jeffrey
Review: This book is an interesting narration of the Jeffery Dahmer case. I wanted to know more about the guy and the details of the killings. Those who are looking for the facts will enjoy this book. But those who are looking for more of a story will find the beginning to be the best part. ( I, myself couldn't put it down.) There are parts that have very little to do with Dahmer though. The author goes into detail about the town of Milwaukee's history. This may bore some, but its trying to show more background on the subject and help display the horror and shock that people felt when Dahmer's killing spree finally surfaced. Those looking for pictures will be satisfied as the photos range from men in bio suits removing Jeff's fridge to that of a dog he killed as a kid. All in all it's a good book but not the best as I am sure that there are better.
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Summary: Good...
Review: This book went way too in-depth with the history of Millwaukee and town of Bath. It was almost like a history lesson that didn't seem to relevant to the story as a whole. The rest of the book was an interesting true story. I didn't get the edition that talked to Dahmer after he was jailed, however.
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Summary: Riduculously bad ...
Review: This is truly one of the worst true crime books I have ever read - and that is a massive call! Don Davis's cliche-ridden prose and ridiculous ramblings (the entire history of small towns, biographies of people who may or may not have known Dahmer) ruin an intriguing story about one of America's most prolific serial killers. Davis seems to have overlooked a number of crucial elements of the true crime genre. The likes of Vincent Bugliosi and Ann Rule write a ripping yarn about their serial killer subjects (Manson and Bundy), including communications with the killers and the victims family. Davis's book lacks any such research. He excludes interviews with his subject - relying entirely on shonky hearsay - and does not appear to have interviewed anyone actually related to the victims (though he interviews someone related to a witness - WOW!). He includes almost no serious psychological analysis - opting instead for an insane explanation for Dahmer's dalliances with cannibalism, his astrological starsign! One section of the book goes into vast detail about a Milwaukee shopping mall Dahmer may not have even visited! Another part brings us up to date with the stock market situation and which films were number one at the box office, at the time of Dahmer's rampage. That being said, this book is so badly written it is hilarious, my buddies and I spent a good hour just opening this book up and reading out some of Davis's ridiculous prose!
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Summary: Chilling! And All True!!
Review: This little true-crime paperback packs a pretty decent wallop. A gripping victim-by-victim account of the multiple murders committed by Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer. The morbid goings-on in Apartment #213 are quite literally beyond belief. The book gives the reader a good "you are there" feeling. Unlike New York's "Son Of Sam" (and other killers of this "caliber"), who preferred to keep their victims at arm's length...Dahmer opted for the "hands-on" approach, with results truly more horrifying than anything Poe or Stephen King could possibly have whipped up. Pick this one up -- if your stomach can take it.
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