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Summary: Insightful--excellent book!
Review: Conversations is an excellent book in Ted Bundy's own words. I found it compelling, informative, provocative and enlightening. The authors (Aynesworth & Michaud) put hours of work into conducting these interviews, and the result is a book which I believe psychologist, criminologists, and the layman can learn much from. I highly recommend this book...you will learn much, and be provided much to think about.
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Summary: Insightful--excellent book!
Review: Conversations is an excellent book in Ted Bundy's own words. I found it compelling, informative, provocative and enlightening. The authors (Aynesworth & Michaud) put hours of work into conducting these interviews, and the result is a book which I believe psychologist, criminologists, and the layman can learn much from. I highly recommend this book...you will learn much, and be provided much to think about.
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Summary: Insightful--excellent book!
Review: Conversations is an excellent book in Ted Bundy's own words. I found it compelling, informative, provocative and enlightening. The authors (Aynesworth & Michaud) put hours of work into conducting these interviews, and the result is a book which I believe psychologist, criminologists, and the layman can learn much from. I highly recommend this book...you will learn much, and be provided much to think about.
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Summary: Articulate, horrific, compelling, complex, insightful.
Review: Drawn from more than 150 hours of taped death-row interviews with mass murderer Ted Bundy, veteran journalists Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth take the reader inside the mind of a serial killer who police believe bludgeoned and raped more than 30 young women in a cross-country spree that finally ended with his arrest in 1978. These taped conversations are the fullest self-portrait ever drawn by a serial killer and a form a kind of guided tour to the psyche of a mass murderer. Ted Bundy: Conversations With A Killer reveal a man who was intelligent, savage, degenerate, complex, articulate, horrific, compelling, repellent, and a consummate gamesman. Here revealed is the mind of a monster in the guise of a man, as well as an incidental commentary on the uncertainties of humanity, law and justice.
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Summary: Been there, done that....
Review: For some reason people believe that this book - Ted Bundy: conversations with a killer - was the first time Bundy had discussed his crimes. Keppel has been there, done that already. Riverman- Ted Bundy and I hunt for the Green River Killer, has Ted speaking in the 'third' person about his own crimes as well as the Green River killings. In my opinion Keppel's book is far superior to Michaud and Anysworth.Conversations has some interesting twists and turns to it, but mainly is nothing more than Bundy playing the games he has always played. Bundy the master manipulator all the way to the end. If you are interested in Bundy also check out: Stranger Beside Me, Deliberate Stranger, and Only Living Witness.
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Summary: Been there, done that....
Review: For some reason people believe that this book - Ted Bundy: conversations with a killer - was the first time Bundy had discussed his crimes. Keppel has been there, done that already. Riverman- Ted Bundy and I hunt for the Green River Killer, has Ted speaking in the 'third' person about his own crimes as well as the Green River killings. In my opinion Keppel's book is far superior to Michaud and Anysworth. Conversations has some interesting twists and turns to it, but mainly is nothing more than Bundy playing the games he has always played. Bundy the master manipulator all the way to the end. If you are interested in Bundy also check out: Stranger Beside Me, Deliberate Stranger, and Only Living Witness.
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Summary: Dissappointing
Review: Pages and pages of verbatim interviews with a megalomaniac, even one as twisted as Ted Bundy, get dull after a while. It would be a necessary reference book for anybody writing a doctoral thesis on Bundy or the psychopathic mind, but really holds little interest for the average reader.
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Summary: Great Information
Review: Stephen G. Michaud ,again, has done an outstanding job in writting a great book about Bundy. There ARE some new insights not seen in other books regarding Bundy's crimes (Like details of Naslund's and Ott's murders, and some insight on Donna Manson's fate. Bundy spent the next 10 years on Florida's Death Row, using legal tactics to delay his execution and offering confessions to his crimes in exchange for a reprieve. After years of living in denial - insisting he was innocent - Bundy finally came clean, although he referred to himself in the third person and claimed the killings were carried out by an "entity" within him. He said he became obsessed by hardcore pornography involving sado-masochism and bondage and said he enjoyed the feeling of being in complete control of his victims. He said the primary motive was rape and that he had to kill the victims to prevent them testifying against him. Strongly recommended
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Summary: Inside the mind of a serial killer!
Review: The authors used an interesting ploy to get Bundy to confess and describe his killings. Whether he was unwilling to admit guilt for psychological reasons or due to legal concerns, no one had reached "first base" with Bundy. The authors cleverly got him to describe his thoughts and feelings in the third person! So his comments were more detached, such as, "The killer would have taken her..." To my mind, that makes it even more chilling. Great reporting and a must read by those who want to understand the obsession and motive of serial killers.
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Summary: A criminal to the very end
Review: This was agony to read largely because it never gets beyond Bundy's constant evasion. There are numerous references to "the book" that the interviewers and Bundy were hoping to realize but it is obvious that the book they imagined is not what we now have. For most of the interviews, Bundy insists on upholding the illusion that he is not guilty. In the face of what we know, and in consideration for the victims and their families, this becomes nearly intolerable to read. However, the interviewers themselves employ expert technique which redeems this effort.
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