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Fishface
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Oct 07, 2019 10:42AM
This one came out Sept 26th, 2019, and is built around a series of letters family annihilator Christopher Watt wrote to the author. Apparently it's full of grisly details that didn't make it into the news.
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This may be too grim, even for my true-crime loving self.
It probably will be grim but I want to read it though.
Rita wrote: "It probably will be grim but I want to read it though."Me, too.
Sheryl wrote: "This may be too grim, even for my true-crime loving self."Personally, I can't think that "grim" as a signifier would keep me away from this book. Perhaps if someone classed it as "cozy" I would be deterred...
Diane in Australia wrote: "Rita wrote: "It probably will be grim but I want to read it though."Me, too."
lol
Hari wrote: "Personally, I can't think that "grim" as a signifier would keep me away from this book. Perhaps if someone classed it as "cozy" I would be deterred..."Same here.
Hari wrote: "Sheryl wrote: "This may be too grim, even for my true-crime loving self."Personally, I can't think that "grim" as a signifier would keep me away from this book. Perhaps if someone classed it as "..."
"Cozy true crime" sounds like a whole new concept to me.
It may be a lot like that Esquire article I saw by Michael Finkel, a follow-up to his book about a similar Father of the Year candidate, Christian Longo. He commented on the irony that writing the book about Longo appears to have given Longo a new lease on life and more determination to fight his death sentence, where Finkel would be thrilled to pull the switch on the guy himself. I understand why after reading the article, which has far more horrific detail on the deaths of his family.For my money they're both a waste of protoplasm.
Fishface wrote: ""Cozy true crime" sounds like a whole new concept to me."Does "Arsenic and Old Lace" qualify? ... lol Two sweet, old ladies serving elderberry wine (spiked with poison). ;)
