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Summary: Scary!
Review: I read this book a few years ago, and I could still remember clearly how chilling this story was. The young woman who was kidnapped by the nerdy looking man while his wife and child were in the car made you realize that everything isn't always what it seems. I recently saw this story profiled on "American Justice" and it was amazing....
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Summary: This Story Is Absolutely Terrifying
Review: I read this book several years ago and IT TERRIFIED ME. I simply cannot fathom how one human being could do this to another person...oh, wait a sec, Hooker's not human, he's a monster! The atrocities this man committed made Hell look downright appealing...that man better hope he lives a long, long time because it will take eternity to come up with an answer for this on Judgement Day! Oh, and one other thing, this should really serve as a lesson for folks who hitchhike or easily open up to strangers! I got purely claustraphobic reading about the headbox, the box under the bed...I found myself twitching, wanting to flex, wanting to run out in the open!!! I saw Colleen Stan on Hard Copy back in 1995, she had gotten married, had a child, and was living some semblence of a normal life. Things appeared "normal" on the outside but surely has got to be tortured by the memories, nightmares...Godspeed to Colleen for health healing.
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Summary: Disturbing
Review: It has been years since I read this book...But NEVER forgot it either..it was like I read it yesterday! I remember Thinking about what it would be like to be trapped in a box! It used to take my breath away! This book will leave you with some unaswered questions..Like...why not escape when you can?...or why not Tell someone You were kidnapped? I guess we don't understand these things If we have not been in her shoes. I actually cried for this girl..The fear of Not knowing what was coming next from her twisted abductors..gave me chills and many sleepless nights.
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Summary: perfectly disgusting
Review: i read this book when i was taking classes at Cabrillo College, in Santa Cruz , CA. i dint read it because required but because i didnt think it was possible for some thing so bizzar to actually happen. well i was wrong . and it totoally made me sick to think about how a person could get so brain washed for it to continue. Ms. McGuire and Ms.Norton wrote this book with all the objectivity and compassion possible, though, i believe that i would have been hard for me not to kill the guy outright ....but thats just me.
i think this book is a way to show that the human spirt goes on even after a horrible incident such as this. Kudos to the writers and the woman who had the guts to perservere!
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Summary: Significant?
Review: No, it's not a book that will change the world. Nor does it need to be. It is an account; it is a good account. The narrative style approaches Joseph Wambaugh's nonfiction, and that's praise indeed. I guess the only real advice I'd give about the book is not to flip through it just before dinner.
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Summary: Hard-to-put down!
Review: I first heard about this book from my mother who read it years ago. I finished the book in three days flat. Alternating between working/reading while at work, I could not stop reading this book. The author (also the prosecutor)did an excellent job of writing=however, she did fail to explain how Colleen Hooker was indeed the "Perfect Victim." The horrendous details of how she was captured, tortured and brainwashed for several years is unimaginable. I'm not sure if I am still in shock because she never left when she had the chance or the fact that she believed Cameron's blatant lies for so long. Either way, Colleen Hooker is a true survivor!
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Summary: Intense!
Review: The Perfect Victim was the most intense book I'd ever read due mostly to the fact that it was based on a true story. It's incomprehensible to me that such a horrible thing like this could happen in our country and that there are a lot of sick people out there. The story was so well written. I've read a few other novels by Christine McGuire. She's a wonderfully, gifted writer.
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Summary: A Young Woman's Journey to Hell and Back
Review: The journey begins when young Colleen Stan is hitchhiking in California and passes up several offers by people she felt uncomfortable accepting rides from. Then along comes a nice American family and she accepts. So begins a 7-year ordeal presumably unmatched by anyone else. I find the book filled with details not only of the horror Cameron Hooker inflicted on Colleen, but also of the earlier horror he inflicted on a young Janice in the days before their marriage. As difficult as it was to believe how Hooker could have Stan so under control he would allow her to hold down a job, it becomes crystal clear when trial testimony describes hostages undergoing the same experience. My only problem is the book is not wholely written in chronological order but jumps back and forth between the current investigation and the years prior when Stan is held captive by a cold, calculating, very intelligent but depraved individual. If you can handle descriptions of immense pain, torture and terror get your hands on this book immediately.
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Summary: to much legal information
Review: i felt that for a case that was so unbelivable there was just a lot of missing gaps as to how a person could be manpulated into not running away at there first chance of freedom no mater what might happen to her even death would be better than to endure 7 years of continuous torture and abuse but i guess mabey if we were told more about her past mabey we could get a idea what kind of mental state she was in when she was kidnapped. also there was just to much legal information to keep the full attention of the average person but lets not forget this book was written by a attorney what do you expect its a slow read book so if you loose interest very fast this is not the book for you.
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Summary: Reading The Book The Perfect Victim
Review: I have purchased this book called "The Perfect Victim" and I have found this book very interesting. I can tell you this was a real page turner for me. It gives insight on what the young lady was going through and how the suspect and his family were able to maintain a "normal" life to outsiders. I think people should think twice about hitchhiking because they can wind up like this young lady or even worse.
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