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Summary: When "Fantom Prince" is a regular guy..
Review: Great book: "Liz Kendall"'s story flows and flows, everything is natural and simple, the only thing is that her Prince was killing women. This is a story of a regular human life crossed by fate that it wasn't meant for. Author is emotional, engaging; she's causing compassion, she's not posing--she seems to tell the truth. I read this book overnight--I couldn't stop, so easily it reads. The book shows "ordinary" side of Bundy, it illustrates his perfect ability to comaprtmentalize and wear a mask. It talks about him as of a person just like you and me and it causes you to feel sorry for him. This is definitely written by a woman who was completely in love with him. Sincere and spontaneous girl, "Liz Kendall" had spent some of her best years waiting for Bundy to marry her, but she couldn't capture him. The book is a great life story, as much about "Liz" as about Bundy, and I think it gives a perfect slice of ONE of Bundy's personalities. You'll end up loving the charactes.
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Summary: When "Fantom Prince" is a regular guy..
Review: Great book: "Liz Kendall"'s story flows and flows, everything is natural and simple, the only thing is that her Prince was killing women. This is a story of a regular human life crossed by fate that it wasn't meant for. Author is emotional, engaging; she's causing compassion, she's not posing--she seems to tell the truth. I read this book overnight--I couldn't stop, so easily it reads. The book shows "ordinary" side of Bundy, it illustrates his perfect ability to comaprtmentalize and wear a mask. It talks about him as of a person just like you and me and it causes you to feel sorry for him. This is definitely written by a woman who was completely in love with him. Sincere and spontaneous girl, "Liz Kendall" had spent some of her best years waiting for Bundy to marry her, but she couldn't capture him. The book is a great life story, as much about "Liz" as about Bundy, and I think it gives a perfect slice of ONE of Bundy's personalities. You'll end up loving the charactes.
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Summary: A Must-Read for insight into the ever-elusive Bundy
Review: I could not put the book down! I could never imagine a more chilling experience than to have been this young woman. A true story of survival and self-preservation!
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Summary: fabulous, easy read
Review: I just finished reading Phantom Prince also, and I was captivated by how "normal" their dysfunctional relationship was! Theirs actually sounds like a lot of relationships 20-something females have with aloof men. One thing I am curious about is -- in the movie, The Deliberate Stranger, Liz (called Cas) mentions how once they were making love and he tried to strangle her. But this book makes no reference to that incident at all. Does anyone know if this was created to enhance the plot? Or do other Bundy books make a reference to this incident? I am leaning toward it being fabricated, since Liz was otherwise quite revealing in her story.
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Summary: fabulous, easy read
Review: I just finished reading Phantom Prince also, and I was captivated by how "normal" their dysfunctional relationship was! Theirs actually sounds like a lot of relationships 20-something females have with aloof men. One thing I am curious about is -- in the movie, The Deliberate Stranger, Liz (called Cas) mentions how once they were making love and he tried to strangle her. But this book makes no reference to that incident at all. Does anyone know if this was created to enhance the plot? Or do other Bundy books make a reference to this incident? I am leaning toward it being fabricated, since Liz was otherwise quite revealing in her story.
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Summary: Another side to the story
Review: Just as interesting to me as Kendall's look at Bundy is her recounting of her involvement of the police investigations into Bundy's crimes. I got some idea what a surprise suspect Bundy was (clean cut, law student, no record, etc.) from Ann Rule's "The Stranger Beside Me," but Kendall was even more involved in the investigations...and more often ignored. There were so many instances when it seemed that if the police had only taken her more seriously, Bundy would have been stopped much sooner. It's frightening how often and how strongly Kendall and Bundy were drawn back to each other. I admire her for pulling her life together in the midst of such chaos.
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Summary: Your friendly neighborhood serial killer....
Review: Sometimes we tend to forget that even serial murderers have families, wives, girlfriends, lovers and supporters. This book provides a glimpse into the life of the unfortunate Elizabeth Kendall, who had the bad luck to hitch her wagon to serial killer Ted Bundy. While other true crime books might focus on the gruesome and sensational aspects of this famous case, Kendall focuses our attention on the personal and the human. Kendall thought Bundy the most charming, caring, handsome man that she had ever met and stuck with him nearly to the end. Her life became a seesaw of conflicting sensations; love, jealousy, selfishness, fear, and trust alternate in her true life saga of love gone to hell in a handbasket.
Kendall sees the signs but never puts on the brakes. Whenever she tries to halt the romance, it flares up again. She is helpless clay in Bundy's adroit and murderous hands. She is caught up in Bundy's weaknesses, his flattery, his attempts at deceit, his posturing and his flamboyance. In spite of it all, it's clear that her anguish is genuine, even if her concept of love is diseased. What Kendall calls love would today be described as "co-dependence" or the emotional detritus of a "poor self-image". She drowns her doubts in alcohol and feels she deserves some sort of punishment for going to the police with her suspicions.
Despite Kendall's occasionally maudlin story, and despite looking at her world through rose-colored lenses, Kendall has inadvertently created a revealing portrait of Bundy that haunts us with its "normalcy". We know now, of course, that Bundy was a viscious serial killer. Yet, this book has me wondering how we would have recognized him had he walked in our midst.
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Summary: A different view of Ted Bundy!
Review: This book give you another look at the serial killer Ted Bundy, who whould had thought that Bundy was a nice guy, well he give the apperance he was. To Elizabeth Kendall the girlfriend of Bundy at that time, Ted Bundy was for her a normal and very nice guy, what a shock it must had been for to discovered that the man she love was a serial killer. This book is very intense because it put you in the shoes of Elizabeth Kendall, that gave you a very different look of Ted Bundy, so he could be a nice guy to some people but he could also be a murderer, he was sick and it very scary to know that people like Ted Bundy do existe and they have family and friends who see them in a different light not just as a killer. This is one of the best book about Ted Bundy because it tell you more about him, his past, family, friends and not so much about the trial and all the awful murders he did, it's not details as some other book did and I'm glad it not, I am not too found at knowing how cruel the murders of the girls had been, that creepy and also the boring trial, what I want to know was how Ted Bundy really was, well a part of him that his girlfriend, friends and family knew, the everyday Bundy and not just the serial killer. Why he did all theses things you don't really know why, just that you know he his a very sick man. This book can trouble you, well it trouble me, how can Bundy could had been such a nice guy to so many people and did what he did?
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Summary: A different view of Ted Bundy!
Review: This book give you another look at the serial killer Ted Bundy, who whould had thought that Bundy was a nice guy, well he give the apperance he was. To Elizabeth Kendall the girlfriend of Bundy at that time, Ted Bundy was for her a normal and very nice guy, what a shock it must had been for to discovered that the man she love was a serial killer. This book is very intense because it put you in the shoes of Elizabeth Kendall, that gave you a very different look of Ted Bundy, so he could be a nice guy to some people but he could also be a murderer, he was sick and it very scary to know that people like Ted Bundy do existe and they have family and friends who see them in a different light not just as a killer. This is one of the best book about Ted Bundy because it tell you more about him, his past, family, friends and not so much about the trial and all the awful murders he did, it's not details as some other book did and I'm glad it not, I am not too found at knowing how cruel the murders of the girls had been, that creepy and also the boring trial, what I want to know was how Ted Bundy really was, well a part of him that his girlfriend, friends and family knew, the everyday Bundy and not just the serial killer. Why he did all theses things you don't really know why, just that you know he his a very sick man. This book can trouble you, well it trouble me, how can Bundy could had been such a nice guy to so many people and did what he did?
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Summary: A close look at the manipulative Ted Bundy
Review: While not much help academically, this book provides a first hand account of how serial killers operate and are able to keep at it for so long. We all knew Bundy was a master of manipulation but Kendall's stories bring it home. You can see just how thin the line is that keeps us from the people like Ted. As much as you want to be angry with Kendall, you can't help but feel sympathy for her plight (although I felt like it was her way of attoneing for 'sins'.) This book (if you can find it) is well worth it if you are interested in the daily lives of serial killers and how their 'problems' manifest themselves.
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