I Have Lived in the Monster
by Robert K. Ressler (Author), Tom Shachtman (Author)
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From their gruesome, body-strewn lairs, to the darkest regions of their twisted psyches, Robert K. Ressler shows you serial killers as you've never seen them before. In his phenomenally successful "Whoever Fights Monsters," Robert K. Ressler examined his brilliant twenty-year career hunting down killers for the FBI. Now, delving deeper than ever before into the criminal mind, Ressler recounts his years since leaving the FBI, working as an independent criminal profiler on some of the most show more famous serial murder cases of our day. Ingeniously piecing together clues from crime scenes, along with killing patterns and methods, Ressler explains his role in assisting the investigations of such perplexing international cases as England's Wimbledon Common killing, the ABC Murders in South Africa, and the deadly gassing of Japan's subway. We're also witness to Ressler's fascinating, in-depth interviews with John Wayne Gacy, the first and last one America's most prolific serial killer would ever grant, plus a shockingly candid discussion with "cannibal killer" Jeffrey Dahmer. Daring to understand the depraved minds of serial killers, Robert K. Ressler returns from the deepest abyss with an unforgettable account that is as riveting as it is shocking. show lessTags
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En este libro nos habla de algunos casos en los que ha participado y nos presenta la entrevista a dos de los asesinos en serie mas conocidos en Estados Unidos.
El libro es interesante, al final nos gana el morbo de intentar entender a esta gente y las razones por las cuales comete sus asesinatos, asà como conocer casos muy conocidos en otros paÃses, sin embargo, no puedo evitar la comparación con el libro de Mindhunters de John Douglas que por mucho es mejor que este en muchos sentidos.
Ressler me ha parecido un hombre muy pagado de si mismo, si bien nos relata casos interesantes, el libro esta plagado de "yo hice esto, yo hice aquello, gracias a mi se logro detener a fulano, solo yo he podido entrevistar a fulano o a sutano, colegas show more mÃos me han criticado por aquello pero aclaro que mienten" sin contar que ha desacreditado a personas con nombres y apellidos y argumentando cosas como "me han criticado mucho porque la envidia profesional no tiene lÃmites"
En fin, la gente que se cree superior a otros no me gusta y el autor me ha caÃdo muy mal, pero bueno esa es una valoración completamente personal y en cuanto al libro, pues es interesante, pero habrÃa podido pasar perfectamente mi vida sin haberlo leÃdo show less
El libro es interesante, al final nos gana el morbo de intentar entender a esta gente y las razones por las cuales comete sus asesinatos, asà como conocer casos muy conocidos en otros paÃses, sin embargo, no puedo evitar la comparación con el libro de Mindhunters de John Douglas que por mucho es mejor que este en muchos sentidos.
Ressler me ha parecido un hombre muy pagado de si mismo, si bien nos relata casos interesantes, el libro esta plagado de "yo hice esto, yo hice aquello, gracias a mi se logro detener a fulano, solo yo he podido entrevistar a fulano o a sutano, colegas show more mÃos me han criticado por aquello pero aclaro que mienten" sin contar que ha desacreditado a personas con nombres y apellidos y argumentando cosas como "me han criticado mucho porque la envidia profesional no tiene lÃmites"
En fin, la gente que se cree superior a otros no me gusta y el autor me ha caÃdo muy mal, pero bueno esa es una valoración completamente personal y en cuanto al libro, pues es interesante, pero habrÃa podido pasar perfectamente mi vida sin haberlo leÃdo show less
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Tom Shachtman has written twenty-five books, including the best-selling "The Gilded Leaf" (with Patrick Reynolds), as well as documentaries for all of the major television networks. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- I Have Lived in the Monster
- Original title
- I Have Lived in the Monster: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers
- Alternate titles
- I Have Lived in the Monster: A Report From The Abyss; Mindhunter Profile 2: Mundo Serial Killer
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Jeffrey Dahmer; John Wayne Gacy
- First words
- Introduction: When I retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its Behavioral Science Unit six years ago, I did not plan to sit in a rocking chair and take life easy from then on.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Given the existence - and profitability - of such a culture that encourages interpersonal violence, a culture that has now spilled over national boundaries and is affecting all of the affluent, highly technologized and Westernized countries of the world, we can only hope that the instances of violence reported in this book, from the secret killings by the child molester to the public assassinations of large groups of people by the Aum cult, will not be too frequently repeated or imitated.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 363.259523092 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Police services Criminal investigation & forensics Investigation of specific types of offenses
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- HV6515 .R43 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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