Any book recommendations? (serious replies only)

[firstimelongtime]

Schecter's book on Gein (Deviant) is brilliant, written in the early eighties and he interviewed a lot of the key players, very detailed and really goes into why the whole community hated Gein and all the shit he had been doing secretly for years - the cover makes it look like throwaway trash but it really is a masterpiece of serial killer/crime writing.

Agreed about the covers. And the time when he wrote them was amongst a lot of trash. His Albert Fish one was pretty good, too. Haven’t read the Gein one yet. They look trashy on the surface but he does his research.

Real research, not Pat research.

 

[guest]

The most fucked up book I’ve ever read.

Check out Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan. I read the original Franklin book by John De Camp at the same time and there's a lot of disturbing overlap. Really altered how I see the world.

 

[Josef Kuminski]

Check out Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan. I read the original Franklin book by John De Camp at the same time and there's a lot of disturbing overlap. Really altered how I see the world.

Yeah the History Homos podcast did an episode on “Programmed to Kill”, so it’s on the reading list. I recently read “Chaos” by O’Neil which is about Manson and the CIA and “Oklahoma City”, which which a fascinating read. The authors all but claim it was an inside job.

 

[JoeBrotheChildSpitGuzzler]

https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Great-Island-Witchcraft-Conflict/dp/0230623875

this one was pretty interesting. a witchcraft hysteria that predates Salem by decades. Seems far fetched but there were so many eyewitnesses and they pretty much admit it would have been impossible to fake and not be found out.

 

[RoxburyRick]

Listening to American Predator right now. I'd suggest it

 

[JebJoh]

I want to get my brother a couple of books for Christmas.

I was thinking true crime, maybe a book that was turned into a movie. Something entertaining.

Sailor’s song by Ken Kesey

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

I've been reading the Prey series of novels by John Sanford. About a semi corrupt detective hunting various killers in the Midwest. Pretty good if all you're looking for is a fast-paced page-turner.

I feel like stupid Pat even writing that. "The elevator pitch is Agatha Christie meets The Wire with a Minnesota twist!"

 

[EraGodless]

Bitter Fruit was a pretty good read--

Bitter Fruit — Harvard University Press

Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the...

www.hup.harvard.edu

 

[guest]

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Fawwk. I meant to make reading this a Christmas tradition and it slipped my mind this year. One of the hardest times I've laughed from something related to this place.