The Riverman
The Riverman
Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
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its fair to mention that this book was recommended to me by a friend and I am grateful that is how much i enjoyed it. I didn't enjoy it because the subject matter was easy breezy, I enjoyed it because the way it was written i couldn't put it down.
Every now and again, a true crime book appears that delivers even more than it promises, and Robert Keppel's remarkable book belongs in that category.
Before I praise it too highly, I should state that despite the title, this book is most definitely not a retelling of Ted Bundy's career as a murderer. Keppel was a detective in King County, Washington in 1974 when Bundy first came to the attention of law enforcement. Accordingly, Keppel focuses on some of Bundy's earliest known murders: the Lake Sammamish victims and the young women who ended up at body dump sites near Issaquah and on Taylor Mountain. But Keppel gives very little attention to Bundy's crimes in other western states; Bundy's escape from jail in Colorado; or his final crime spree in Florida. So for those of us who know little or nothing about Bundy's monstrous murders, this book almost serves to confuse rather than enlighten. But this criticism is tempered by the wealth of information that Keppel does give us.
kiedy śmiałom się, że tytuł tej książki brzmi jak tytuł buddy movie, nie spodziewałom się, że miejscami będzie taka, taka fanfikowa.
ad rem: ojej, jakie to było dobre. Pan Keppel ma w sobie kopalne wręcz ilości soli i nie waha się nią sypnąć, a jednocześnie ani na moment nie zapomina, że tam - po drugiej stronie stołu, gdzieś w stanie Waszyngton wciąż niewidzialny dla policji - jest nie potwór z bajki, tylko człowiek. Tak po prostu.
To jest książka przede wszystkim o Tedzie, co jest jednocześnie zaletą i wadą - najpierw byłom wielce szczęśliwe, że mogę (w końcu!) poczytać Teda mówiącego o rzeczach, nie ludzi mówiących o Tedzie. Ale, erm, jak to mówią, uważaj czego sobie życzysz. (Pozdrawiam Żmija.)