01-17-2015, 10:46 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: SoCal by way of Boston
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Originally Posted by James
Don't be a pedant.
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Guilty as charged. 
Quick sidebar: Probably the most horrifying non-fiction book I've ever read. The psychology of this guy was unprecedented. Hannibal Lector has nothing on Ted Bundy.
http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Besid...rule+ted+bundy
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I had heard of this book, of course; had wanted to read it for years, so when this 20th anniversary edition came out, I decided to give it a go. I had a pre-conceived notion: OK, this is going to be a really interesting biography of Ted Bundy, with the added attraction of having been written by a former dear friend. Fast, easy crime reading, I thought.
I was wrong. This story is so chilling, so frightening, it grips you in the gut. Ann Rule has simply stated the facts. No sensationalism, no gratuitous gore, no psychobabble. Just the facts. As they happend. And even though the reader might think of Ted Bundy as "old news," and even though he was executed in 1989, this book makes one check to see that the doors and windows are locked.
There are actually two stories here: one describes the gradual disintegration of a seemingly normal, affable, brilliant man into a sexual psychopath so evil, so methodical in his vicious killings, that one wonders if he was at all human. The other story is that of Ann Rule herself, a decent, hard-working, middle-aged mother of four who meets and befriends a nice young man working beside her in a crisis clinic. A man she regards as a younger brother; a man she views as a close and trusted friend. The slow but inexorable realization on Rule's part that this man is in fact an unspeakably violent serial killer is as painful to read as it was for her to experience.
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And yes, Burzum (Varg) is racist. Also homophobic, misogynistic, anti-social, and most definitely sociopathic.
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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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