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.Chopper 3: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Mate Shot in the Arse
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by: Mark Brandon Read

April 30, 2004
Another great piece from the mad Aussie. I wonder when Mark will run out of gags and stories, but he never fails to enthuse his readers with new stories and situations.
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.Dark Dreams: A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
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by: Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G. Michaud

2002-10
Having read many of John Douglas' books I was expecting a book of equal calibre but instead struggled to finish reading it. Compared to Douglas, Hazelwood's recounting of cases is superficial and dry. Added to this, the grammar falls appart in places making it frustrating and hard to understand. I won't be buying any more books by this author.
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.The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob
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by: T.J. English

July 14, 2008
Having read many of John Douglas' books I was expecting a book of equal calibre but instead struggled to finish reading it. Compared to Douglas, Hazelwood's recounting of cases is superficial and dry. Added to this, the grammar falls appart in places making it frustrating and hard to understand. I won't be buying any more books by this author.
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.Top Boys: True Stories of Football's Hardest Men
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by: Cass Pennant

June 30, 2006
There were some very interesting accounts from the top boys from firms around the country. Most of the boys featured seemed to know what they were doing or what they have done. A few seemed to be full of hot air give it a go you decide.
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.London: The Executioner's City
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by: David Brandon, Alan Brooke

October 01, 2007
Adnittedly, I raced through this book and - true - it is filled with gruesome and fascinatingly morbid facts, which is what anyone buying this book presumably would want. However, something in it left me wanting. There were parts where it was simply listing case after case, paragraph upon paragraph,a little bit too breathlessly; such-and-such-a-person was convicted of stealing and was hanged at Tyburn in 17-- and so on and so forth. I felt that more substance was needed, more context, more analysis; more description of the ritual (what exactly does being "dragged on a hurdle" entail? How exactly were prisoners prepared? When reading, I had so many questions and it was just one case after another. A little simplistic and unsophisticated I felt ... Read More:
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.White Gold: The Inside Story of the UK's Largest Ever Drugs Haul
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by: Eugene Costello

November 03, 2005
Gotta say, as a native of Ullapool, the stories been a bit glamourised, but still a great read.

Growing up we all knew that our some of our mates fathers were in jail for drugs, but it was never talked about so its really interesting to actually hear what really went on that year.
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.The Executioner's Song (Arena Books)
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by: Norman Mailer

August 15, 1991
This jaw-dropping book recieves less than flattering reviews because for some reason people want to be spoon-fed "answers" all the time to people like Gary Gilmore. What Mailer delivers instead is a truly outstanding feat of journalism, far surpassing any fiction, by painstakingly building Gilmores story from thousands of discrete, taut, unsentimental blocks of prose - allowing us to cement them together and giving us room to think for ourselves. Readers expecting Mailer to provide plot, climax, titillation, shocking details or answers as to "why" will rightly be bored, and have missed the point. Mailers neutral measured prose provides just the right angle of entry into a life that was devoid of plot and reason, just action and reaction. It is a clear ... Read More:
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.Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
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by: Patricia Cornwell

September 01, 2003
"Portrait of a Killer" is interesting, but as a serious Jack the Ripper investigation it's an absolute disgrace. Cornwell undertakes a total character assassination of the artist Walter Sickert - she even hints he may have harboured paedophilic tendencies -, without proving much other than that parts of his work reflect a certain disturbed mind.

A lot of the passages in the book are pure conjecture, based on logic rather than hard facts. There are lots of "if"s, "assuming that"s, "supposing thats", "had ... happened"s and "Sickert would have"s etc. throughout the book, and Cornwell constantly admits not knowing, or not having access to, certain facts, such as Sickert's whereabouts on given dates etc, and that she's unable to prove certain things. She's ... Read More:
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.The Con Artist Handbook
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by: Joel Levy

October 15, 2004

This book is vrilliant, even the paper is of the highest qaulity! the book has around 30 cons, scams and hustles, do you watch Hustle? (BBC1)If you do you will see how every con they have ever done is done. the diffrent variations etc. i would recomend this, but beware you have to be practiced, another thing if you are planning to be a con artist, then don't, this book will tell you why, it's a good read. TiMe To bE NeGaTiVe;
1) Not enough pages.
2) Needs to say more about each con.
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.Serial Killer Investigations
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by: Colin Wilson

July 02, 2007

This book is vrilliant, even the paper is of the highest qaulity! the book has around 30 cons, scams and hustles, do you watch Hustle? (BBC1)If you do you will see how every con they have ever done is done. the diffrent variations etc. i would recomend this, but beware you have to be practiced, another thing if you are planning to be a con artist, then don't, this book will tell you why, it's a good read. TiMe To bE NeGaTiVe;
1) Not enough pages.
2) Needs to say more about each con.
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