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Loading... Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession (edition 2020)by Rachel Monroe (Author)
Work InformationSavage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I loved the first half of the book. The first two stories were engrossing and I could not put them Dow but I lost interest while reading the back half. Her writing is quite good but what she covered didn’t catch me. This book is about a 2.5 for me. That is all based on the first half. ( ) This was such an amazing read. Not what I thought it was going to be at all, but I wasn't disappointed at all. The exact opposite happened actually. Her writing is amazing I was engaged the entire time, I couldn't put this book to everyone who is interested in true crime even just a little. I would pick up any of her books without hesitation. When I started to read this book, I felt a bit confused with how the author would jump from one person to another and back again but by the second chapter it got better. When Monroe talked about the West Memphis Three, I teared up because there are problems and situations like this that have happened in the past and are still recurring even now where "suspects" are being railroaded simply because they look the part. Real killers stay on the loose because law enforcement officials refused to look any where else and they create more victims trying to survive the system. When Columbine was mentioned it brought me back to the day I was sitting in class watching it. It was so many thing that I couldn't imagine happening at the time and now I fear it every day my child goes to school. There are people who glorify what the gunmen did that day. That truly scares me. When Lee was mentioned at the beginning of the book about her Nutshells dioramas, it was like... wait someone has made these? And I need to see them. Lee was never the typical house wife, with her pushing the boundaries to make these for law enforcement officials? Brilliant. Tells stories of four women’s very different encounters with crime and its fascinations. An early self-taught/volunteer crime scene investigator/funder of forensic science; a victim’s rights advocate who glommed on to Sharon Tate’s family with what might be both sincerity and opportunism; a woman who fell in love with a man on death row for a crime he likely didn’t commit and who devoted her life to rescuing him; and a young woman who was an online Nazi and flew to Canada supposedly to carry out a mass murder with her online boyfriend, whose equally half-assed planning prevented any death but his own. no reviews | add a review
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In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a bored heiress began creating dollhouse crime scenes depicting murders, suicides, and accidental deaths. Known as the "Mother of Forensic Science," she revolutionized the field of what was then called legal medicine. In the aftermath of the Manson Family murders, a young woman moved into Sharon Tate's guesthouse and, over the next two decades, entwined herself with the Tate family. In the mid-nineties, a landscape architect in Brooklyn fell in love with a convicted murderer, the supposed ringleader of the West Memphis Three, through an intense series of letters. After they married, she devoted her life to getting him freed from death row. And in 2015, a teenager deeply involved in the online fandom for the Columbine killers planned a mass shooting of her own. A combination of personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Savage appetites is a journey into obsession, scrupulously exploring empathy, justice and the persistent appeal of crime. No library descriptions found. |
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