I don't think this book is absolutely terrible but it certainly has its flaws. When I saw this book has an average rating of 2.77 I was really shocked but I also couldn't believe a book could be that bad. Sorry for the rant but this is the only time in my life I have felt compelled to write a book review, and I will consider it worthwhile if I save even only one person the £8.99 it cost. The 'true crime' here is the publication of this book.
#Beyond evil rating serial#
I don't think I'll be able to read the book any further, because so far it just seems like constant self-fellaciating a macho man, self-reporting on his experiences talking with serial killers and how he handled himself, with a convenient lack of supporting evidence past his own word. I don't profess to be an expert in serial killers or psychology, but I am sure that there is more to it than that - or if there isn't, at least make it interesting and submit a decent argument as to why. In fact, this is probably one of the most superficial books I have ever read about anything sociological, with the author making it quite clear at the outset that he thinks these, often neuro-atypical, serial killers are simply monsters and brutes, without any nuance. The sloppiness could almost be forgiven if there was any substance past hyperbole and cliché. It's worse than I imagine the book equivalent of a crappy, American dramatised crime-documentary called Rivers of Blood: When Serial Killers Go Bad Gone True Crime Wrong would be.Īt the beginning of the book he mocks a serial killer for his poor grammar, ironically sandwiched by his own awful grammar. Like others I was bored at an airport and bought it, but have found myself more bored for reading it. about 50 pages in I came here to see if it gets better. I hate to form an opinion of a book without finishing it, let alone write a review, but. 'I myself wrote to Russel Williams to try to find the answer to that question. To finish it off, for a book that claims this hotshot author has been "Talking with Psychopaths" I have to quote from the pen of the master: Still, mister Berry-Dee is very happy to "get in the mind of the monster" (even for cases that are 80 years old and poorly documented), where nothing interesting happens, except for emptiness and cliché being followed by completely uncalled for, useless and extremely superficial simplistic moral judgment. The way he treats the cases has nothing original or insightful, there is no Talking with Psychopaths, it just feels like he copy-pasted juicy bits from Wikipedia. His non-existent editor might have tried to talk him back from some of his supreme Trumpian ramblings, but clearly this author is a genius so we have to live with it for as long as we read the book. Worst of all the author is very present, in a very annoying way - he is continuously self-promoting, referring to other books he's written, and he clearly likes himself very much, in a very chummy way. This is cheap, empty, self-important writing, and the book hasn't been properly edited - poorly structured with unnecessary repetitions, spelling and grammar mistakes.
#Beyond evil rating full#
It's printed click bait at best, I was bored at the airport, got baited, and lived it to the full so I could write a review. īy a long distance the worst book I've read. Includes many of the author's unique first-hand interviews and correspondence with convicted serial killers, proving that the world's most monstrous killers may be much closer than we think. Talking With Psychopaths and Savages was the UK's bestselling true-crime title of 2017, and he is now the country's No.
Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes.
It will not make for a comfortable bedtime read because it is solely intended to put you inside the heads of those killers who thrive on pure evil' - from the author's introduction. 'Having interviewed over thirty of these twisted murderers, whose homicidal craft and skills strangulation suffocation knifing bludgeoning their prey to death setting victims on fire alive shooting injecting with caustic agents and just about every other tortuous means of extinguishing life known to deviant man, I go further than ever before in this book by inviting you to the Gates of Hell.
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