A Father's Story

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Summary: Disturbing and sad book!
Review: For someone who was not able to expressed his feelings I think in this book Lionel Dahmer expressed it very well.It's a fast reading but we want to know more. I don't know but something is missing in this book, the act of Jeffrey Dahmer were so disturbing and odd, I beleived he was a really trouble soul and his need to control had take over him.I think Lionel Dahmer should not think that he his the cause of his son illness, okay he had maybe past his obscession to control to his son but everybody want some control in their life or anything at some degree, he should not blame himself for what his son did.I really beleived his son was really mentaly sick and really had need help from an early age. Put him to prison was not the answer to his problem, okay they put him aways to protect society but what about Jeffrey mental condition, his suffering, it's obvious he need help and he was mentaly disturbed, how can't our criminal and justice system cannot see that? If they will have put Jeffrey to mental facility they may had know what had cause his obscession to control and why he felt the need to do all theses murders and that way they could have find maybe an answer, well not all the answers but some of it and help other person like Jeffrey.Hey come one someone have to be really mentaly disturbe to feel the need to kills someone to have control over him/her to have sex and after eat them to have a sense of possession of them and that way they will never live them. We see right there that Jeffrey Dahmer his mentaly ill!Lots of things need to be change in our society, our society is not healthy, we should have a programe who will teach children at an early age how to deal with life, how to express their emotions and feelings but we don't have that. Our society is mostly a competitive one, who is mostly base on I am better then you, no real family values, sense of belonging somewhere, not much caring and love, it's moslty hate and anger.Jeffrey Dahmer have an obscession to control who take part in everything in his life, he could not deal with it, society, his family, his parents genetic, his view of life as a young child, the fact that his mother was depressed when she was pregnant of him...yeah all of theses things can had affect Jeffrey but mostly I do beleived is his obscession of control who had take over him who had trouble him so much that he did what he did for a sense of absolute control.Lots of people had suffer from Jeffrey Dahmer, his victimes, the families of his victimes, his own family and also Jeffrey had suffer, yeah he maybe a killer but he suffer too. The mind sometime can make us do something that we don't even understand why we doing it and I am sure Jeffrey Dahmer didn't understand why he need to do what he did!I had wish to know more about his mother and brother, they didn't seem to be much in the picture. It was a very sad and disturbing book and also he make you think of how the mind work and why some people do this or do that. If Jeffrey Dahmer would had see a good psy or doctor in time he may had get the help he had need and no one will had been murder!

Rating:
Summary: Disturbing and sad book!
Review: For someone who was not able to expressed his feelings I think in this book Lionel Dahmer expressed it very well.It's a fast reading but we want to know more. I don't know but something is missing in this book, the act of Jeffrey Dahmer were so disturbing and odd, I beleived he was a really trouble soul and his need to control had take over him.I think Lionel Dahmer should not think that he his the cause of his son illness, okay he had maybe past his obscession to control to his son but everybody want some control in their life or anything at some degree, he should not blame himself for what his son did.I really beleived his son was really mentaly sick and really had need help from an early age. Put him to prison was not the answer to his problem, okay they put him aways to protect society but what about Jeffrey mental condition, his suffering, it's obvious he need help and he was mentaly disturbed, how can't our criminal and justice system cannot see that? If they will have put Jeffrey to mental facility they may had know what had cause his obscession to control and why he felt the need to do all theses murders and that way they could have find maybe an answer, well not all the answers but some of it and help other person like Jeffrey.Hey come one someone have to be really mentaly disturbe to feel the need to kills someone to have control over him/her to have sex and after eat them to have a sense of possession of them and that way they will never live them. We see right there that Jeffrey Dahmer his mentaly ill!Lots of things need to be change in our society, our society is not healthy, we should have a programe who will teach children at an early age how to deal with life, how to express their emotions and feelings but we don't have that. Our society is mostly a competitive one, who is mostly base on I am better then you, no real family values, sense of belonging somewhere, not much caring and love, it's moslty hate and anger.Jeffrey Dahmer have an obscession to control who take part in everything in his life, he could not deal with it, society, his family, his parents genetic, his view of life as a young child, the fact that his mother was depressed when she was pregnant of him...yeah all of theses things can had affect Jeffrey but mostly I do beleived is his obscession of control who had take over him who had trouble him so much that he did what he did for a sense of absolute control.Lots of people had suffer from Jeffrey Dahmer, his victimes, the families of his victimes, his own family and also Jeffrey had suffer, yeah he maybe a killer but he suffer too. The mind sometime can make us do something that we don't even understand why we doing it and I am sure Jeffrey Dahmer didn't understand why he need to do what he did!I had wish to know more about his mother and brother, they didn't seem to be much in the picture. It was a very sad and disturbing book and also he make you think of how the mind work and why some people do this or do that. If Jeffrey Dahmer would had see a good psy or doctor in time he may had get the help he had need and no one will had been murder!

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Summary: Dust Jacket: FRONT FLAP, BACK FLAP & BACK COVER
Review: FRONT FLAP: "On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered--along with the rest of the world--that his son Jeffrey was a murderer who, over a period of many years, had carried out some of the most ghastly crimes every committed in the United States. ¶ These crimes were so grisly that for a time Dahmer entered a world of complete denial--first convinced that Jeff was innocent, then later that he had been no more that the tool of some other, far more evil human being. But as the evidence accumulated, it became clear that Jeffrey Dahmer had acted alone--and that the 'evil' that had compelled him was far more disturbing that any Lionel Dahmer might have imagined. ¶ As the trial progressed, and the crimes of his son were graphically detailed, Lionel Dahmer began to place himself in the dock beside his son. In the torturous weeks following Jeff's conviction, he continued his descent toward that harrowing point at which the line of his own life inevitably intersected with his son's. In doing so, he completed the darkest journey ever made by a stricken father--one that ultimately led one painful step at a time from his initial denial (continued on BACK FLAP) to a final admission of shattering intensity. ¶ A Father's Story cannot claim to have discovered the ultimate solution to the enigma of either the criminal or his deeds. It is, in fact, not the story of Jeffrey Dahmer at all, but of a father who, by slow, incremental degrees, came to realize the saddest truth that any parent may ever know: that following some unknowable process, his child had somewhere crossed the line that divides the human from the monstrous. ¶ This memoir is not a refutation of charges, an attempt to change the record. It is both a touching family memoir and a haunting confession--the searing account of a man who never relented in his effort to fathom the deepest quarters of his son's affliction, even as they pointed to his own. It is an important document on the nature of fatherhood, the origins of madness, and the role of kinship in the legacy of evil." ¶ Dust jacket BACK COVER: "How could anyone believe that his son could do such things? How was it possible that all of this had been hidden from me--not only the horrible physical evidence of my son's crimes, but the dark nature of the man who had committed them, this child I had held in my arms a thousand times, and whose face, when I glimpsed it in the newspapers, looked like mine?"

Rating:
Summary: Dust Jacket: FRONT FLAP, BACK FLAP & BACK COVER
Review: FRONT FLAP: "On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered--along with the rest of the world--that his son Jeffrey was a murderer who, over a period of many years, had carried out some of the most ghastly crimes every committed in the United States. ¶ These crimes were so grisly that for a time Dahmer entered a world of complete denial--first convinced that Jeff was innocent, then later that he had been no more that the tool of some other, far more evil human being. But as the evidence accumulated, it became clear that Jeffrey Dahmer had acted alone--and that the 'evil' that had compelled him was far more disturbing that any Lionel Dahmer might have imagined. ¶ As the trial progressed, and the crimes of his son were graphically detailed, Lionel Dahmer began to place himself in the dock beside his son. In the torturous weeks following Jeff's conviction, he continued his descent toward that harrowing point at which the line of his own life inevitably intersected with his son's. In doing so, he completed the darkest journey ever made by a stricken father--one that ultimately led one painful step at a time from his initial denial (continued on BACK FLAP) to a final admission of shattering intensity. ¶ A Father's Story cannot claim to have discovered the ultimate solution to the enigma of either the criminal or his deeds. It is, in fact, not the story of Jeffrey Dahmer at all, but of a father who, by slow, incremental degrees, came to realize the saddest truth that any parent may ever know: that following some unknowable process, his child had somewhere crossed the line that divides the human from the monstrous. ¶ This memoir is not a refutation of charges, an attempt to change the record. It is both a touching family memoir and a haunting confession--the searing account of a man who never relented in his effort to fathom the deepest quarters of his son's affliction, even as they pointed to his own. It is an important document on the nature of fatherhood, the origins of madness, and the role of kinship in the legacy of evil." ¶ Dust jacket BACK COVER: "How could anyone believe that his son could do such things? How was it possible that all of this had been hidden from me--not only the horrible physical evidence of my son's crimes, but the dark nature of the man who had committed them, this child I had held in my arms a thousand times, and whose face, when I glimpsed it in the newspapers, looked like mine?"

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Summary: great
Review: I really admire Lional Dahmer to come forth and share his feelings about something that is so unbelievable to understand. He proves to be a brave man and strong condsidering what he and the other families went through....I really admire and respect him for sharing his own thoughts and feelings, a son that he will never understand.....he still was his father, put in an uncomfortable situation no one could ever understand........

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Summary: In his own Words
Review: Lionel Dahmer expresses to you, the reader, his struggle through a life's reality. He shares with us his pain, and his now tainted memories of a boy who grew up to become a man...a man who could not escape his demons. Of all the Jeff Dahmer books I have read, this is the most sincere, and gratifing one of them all. Lionel explains his desperation on trying to save his son from the vile unseen, and eventually coming to terms with who and what Jeff was. Lionel admits to his own darker emotions and to the truth that the love a parent has for their child has no limits. By the grace of God, Lionel

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Summary: Written with taste
Review: This book strips the glamorous notoriety off Dahmer. I realized how much of a sad, pathetic, expulsive life he led. Nowhere in this book does it attach the "intriguing" stigma that is so often seen in other true crime books. This book kills that stigma.

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Summary: A Father's Story
Review: This is an excellent book! I really feel for Dahmer's father because now that his son's monstrous ways have been made public, he looks back and wonders if he should have spotted this earlier. I've read many Dahmer books but this one is by far the best one i have read.