I always find it really hard to rate a book that talks so openly about the struggles that the author has lived with, yet that I didn't consider particularly well written. In this case the award winning writer, Pete Earley was involved, so there really wasn't any excuse for this being so slow to get ...
The book was well done, I think the subject just doesn't have quite the same pull for me as some of Pete Earley's other books.
A review on the back of my copy of the book by Nelson DeMillw says it perfectly: "You don't read this book as an outsider looking into Leavenworth. On the first page, you open the gates of the prison; by the second page, the gates have been closed behind you-and you won't get our until the final pag...
Both a father's heart wrenching story and a talented journalists perceptive portrait of the tragic and intertwined relationship between mental illness and the criminal justice system in America. I knew A LOT about these topics going into reading this book and it is still one of the most insightful a...
It's a horrifying book to read as one lives through the eyes of the various serial killers depicted in this non-fiction, but mostly it is more about the tale of dancing with the devil and looking into its soul and getting away.
I have to say that this was one of the most unusual books I have read in a very, very long time. It was bizarre to the point of being surreal. The book was well written; however, I must say that I had very serious questions to the motivations to the main character and his family into their choice of...
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