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The Stranger Beside Me

The Stranger Beside Me

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best book for college girls - ALL GIRLS
Review: My Mom bought me this books years ago when I was still enjoying my summers at the beach with high-school and college friends - none of my friends could understand my anxieties -UNTIL THEY READ THIS BOOK - he could have been anyone of the guys we met - on the beach, the boardwalk, the bars or parties, we were still carefree in a sense, but we had this knowledge in the back of our heads - we never travelled home alone again...if we even attempted too (while in relaxed state of mind) we were quickly reminded of the name Ted Bundy - it was enough to make us wait for someone to walk home with you... An absolute must for ANY WOMAN - especially when you are in the mind frame that "nothing will ever happen to me". I'm now buying this for by nieces that are in high school and I will save a copy for my young daughter too...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best!
Review: My favorite of all of Ann Rule's books to date...I've read every single book she's ever written. Ted Bundy was a handsome, charming serial killer. To think Ann actually knew him, and was fooled by his smooth ways. It is scary indeed to think this man fooled so many. Great read!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fate changed Ann Rule's life forever...
Review: Fate made her friends with a young, handsome, charismatic young man named Ted Bundy. Little did Rule know that Ted would soon become the most wanted serial killer in the nation...

This is a detailed, disturbing book about one of America's most heinous serial killers ever. Rule does not flinch at describing her friend Ted's antics...and yet, she shows genuine sympathy for the man (rather, the side of the man she knew), and confesses her doubts and personal foils as she tried to solve these crimes, never knowing that one of her good friends was the killer. "The Stranger Beside Me" is a great crime story--because it's unbelieavably true.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Almost too good to be non-fiction!!!
Review: As a crime writer, Ann Rule was "in the right place at the right time" as far as Ted Bundy is concerned... That she can provide the facts along with personal, first-hand anecdotes regarding Bundy makes this book all the more mesmerizing... It is so eerie and macabre, that it is almost too bizarre to be a true story!!!

For anyone interested in true crime, this is one that definitely should not be missed...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Crime Book Ever!
Review: Ann Rule was friends with Ted Bundy! How incredible is that? I have never read a book even half the length as this one, but I could not put it down. In fact, I read it twice. Erie, creepy, action-packed, and downright amazing, even if you are sickened by the grotesque acts of this brutal criminal.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Do Not Read This Book - Even Though It's Good
Review: Maybe because this world is crazy enough these days, with all the senseless violence, hatred, internet broadcast beheadings, and other unspeakable atrocities, I'm hoping you won't read this book. I read it, Ann Rule is good, the story is definetely "story worthy", it's just very very disturbing and it affected me for a long time after I finished it. I related to these young women. I have long dark hair. The thought that I could have been one of Ted's victims if I had had the horribly unfortunate bad luck to live at that time and come across a maniac terrified me! I was so upset after reading about this monster's callous disrespect for human life that I couldn't sleep normally for about a month.
On the other hand, I couldn't really grasp how Ms. Rule could write about her relationship with the killer in an almost normal way. Ted Bundy was dead when I read the book but I was still scared of him. That Ms. Rule could continue to correspond with the man, to actually touch paper that had been touched by a man who commited such atrocities is not something I was able to accept. Maybe she has some coping mechanism that I can't grasp. But I couldn't help but feel a little bit of dislike for the author. She just didn't seem that scared that a homicidal maniac who was proficient at jail-breaks was corresponding with her. I probably would have had a breakdown.
Again, no complaints about the writing or the accuracy, but spare yourselves the anguish. The news is full of it already.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: He's not a stranger anymore
Review: I found this book highly stimulating, I was unable to put it down.
Ann Rule's inside perspective brought a new light to the Ted Bundy story. The facts, the drama, the familiarity, all brought together makes this book extremely well written, easy to follow, and gripping to read! Great job Ann !!
My boyfriend (who hates to read anything other than car magazines) gave it a read (to see what all my hype up of the book was about) and he finished it in about 5 days ! Now he's ready to read about the Green River killer. If a book can turn a non-reader into a reader, thats 5 stars in my book! And I am ready to read it again (I read it about 2 years ago).


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