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Summary: early Ann Rule work is competent but somewhat hollow...
Review: 'The I-5 Killer' is a decent but unremarkable effort by Ann Rule, the queen of true crime novels. While it does give accounts of horrible sexual crimes and murders by a completely unrepetent monster, the book lacks many elements of Ann Rule's better works: intricate courtroom drama, in-depth analysis of the criminal's background, and detailed chronology of the police/forensic work done in proving the criminal's guilt. I suppose all this is unsurprising since 'The I-5 Killer' is only about half the length of Ann Rule's best works (eg, 'The Stranger Beside Me').Bottom line: certainly very readable and credible, but Ann Rule can and has done better.
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Summary: early Ann Rule work is competent but somewhat hollow...
Review: 'The I-5 Killer' is a decent but unremarkable effort by Ann Rule, the queen of true crime novels. While it does give accounts of horrible sexual crimes and murders by a completely unrepetent monster, the book lacks many elements of Ann Rule's better works: intricate courtroom drama, in-depth analysis of the criminal's background, and detailed chronology of the police/forensic work done in proving the criminal's guilt. I suppose all this is unsurprising since 'The I-5 Killer' is only about half the length of Ann Rule's best works (eg, 'The Stranger Beside Me'). Bottom line: certainly very readable and credible, but Ann Rule can and has done better.
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Summary: A gripping tale
Review: Although I have read a considerable number of true crime novels, this is the first Ann Rule book I've ever read. I generally avoid books that have covers where the author's name is in bigger print than anything else, but as the saying goes, "don't judge a book by its cover." Sure enough, Rule has crafted a very suspenseful story about serial rapist and murderer Randall B. Woodfield. I've seen a number of ...reviewers bemoan the absence of a rigid chronological approach in this book, but I feel that this book would not have been nearly as successful in conveying the horror of Woodfield's crimes if they had simply been discussed one after another. By first introducing us to various women who had the misfortune to become involved with Woodfield, we are even more shocked when some of them turn up dead. Also, this book is generally oriented around the investigators who were hunting an unknown serial rapist and murderer; these detectives were not able to piece together a complete catalog and timeline of Woodfield's crimes until late in the investigation. There seems to be no consensus about Rule's body of work -- whether or not she's getting better as time goes on, or whether or not she's "lost it." Regardless of what you think about her writing career as a whole, "The I-5 Killer" is a gripping true crime story. Woodfield's life and crimes are introduced and explored from a variety of perspectives. This certainly isn't the best true crime story I've ever read -- at times it feels like the story wanders a bit, and sometimes there seems to be extraneous detail -- but this is still an above-average book.
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Summary: Good Job of Suspence!
Review: Ann Rule does a good job here of keeping the suspence at a high leval well into the story. This is an improvement on the "Stranger Beside Me" where the public was partially familiar with the Ted Bundy story from news reports. It's also an improvement on "Dead by Sunset" which told the story of "only" one murder-with an obvious culprit. "The I-5 Killer" also features a truely sick and evil murderer-there is not the hint of good that Mr. Bundy may have had in him. The bad guy is really a bad guy. We feel for his victims and are glad when he is bought to justice. Readers who actually live along Interstate 5, especially in Oregon should be especially interested.
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Summary: Another Great Book by Ann Rule
Review: Another book by Ann Rule that couldn't be put down until it was finished. All the victims were introduced first, so we knew who was who when they were murdered. At times I found some of the writing to be disturbing, but most of it had to be said to try and understand the problems Randy Woodfield had with his sex life. I highly recommend this book for all adults with a strong stomach, but keep it away from the fragile ones.
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Summary: First-time Ann Rule Reader!
Review: As a first-time true crime reader I'm glad I started out with "I-5 Killer" by Ann Rule. Truly Ann has the inside mind of Randall. He had everything going for him. Family money; good looks; athletic; charming, but something happened to his persona Randall never grew a conscience never felt sympathy , never felt empathy for anyone or anything. Was he born like this? Or was he made like this? Having 2 older sisters isn't enough reason to kill, maim, or hate women or have oral sex as your turn-on through-out life. We are missing something here in his early childhood! Overall ,I enjoyed this book very much...I reccomend it to True Crime readers.
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Summary: The Inner Workings of a serial murderer
Review: As a psychology student (and a campus police officer), I was very intrigued/and numbed at the way Ann went into detail into the mind of Randall Woodfield (the killer). This book will not only intrigue criminal justice students, but psychology students as well. I would encourage everyone to read this book
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Summary: The I-5 Killer
Review: For true crime junkies, Ann Rule again suceedes. For some reason, I finish her books in one sitting. Ann Rule is truly an american icon in the true crime sense.
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Summary: Another great book by Ann Rule!
Review: I am a big fan of Ann Rule's work. She has written many great books that are very interesting and intertaining.
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Summary: Riveting and sad.
Review: I found it kept my interest quite well. Not one of her more interesting stories, but enjoyable.
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