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Also available as Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want-good grades, good athletic skills, and good friends-until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. Pronounced clinically dead three times by helicopter paramedics before he reached a hospital, Ciaglia lapsed into a coma.
When he emerged, his right side was paralyzed and he had to relearn how to walk, talk, and even how to eat. The areas of his brain that were damaged required him to take countless pills to control his emotions and rages. They're terrible people and I'm not taking their side nor agreeing with a single one of their crimes. They're disgusting and awful. That epilogue was just like a complete reversal of what the entire book spent doing.
Side note: Did anybody else find Tony's relationship with his girlfriend to be creepy? He stalked her until she gave in. At the time, she was 19 and he was in his 30's as far as I understand it, the ages could be mistaken. He also gave serial killers explicit details about their sex life. Mar 04, Ishmael Seaward rated it did not like it. Interesting but disappointing in many ways. I was hoping for some more insight along the lines of "The Science of Evil", but not so far.
A young man Tony has a horrific accident, suffering traumatic brain injury TBI. The damage manifests itself as periodic fits of uncontrollable rage, defensiveness, memory issues, and social miscues, all of which alienate him from his former friends and society at large.
His parents and brother stick by him, and wi Interesting but disappointing in many ways. His parents and brother stick by him, and with their help, and the help of psychiatrists and a psychologists, begins to come to grips with how to manage his new persona. In the course of his recovery, he decides to befriend serial killers SK via a letter writing campaign. The ostensible reason is to see if he can establish a connection with each SK because they and Tony have something in common: uncontrollable rage and feelings of alienation.
And based on that connection, Tony will elicit better understanding of why they did what they did, and also obtain more detailed confessions. He does, in fact, establish relationships with about 24 such killers. One of them is Shawcross, with whom he has an extensive correspondence and actually visits. Shawcross does provide very detailed descriptions of what he did Warning: not for the squeamish. They do provide some information about their childhoods and how damaging some of them were, but how those events actually drove them to commit such horrific crimes is not apparent from their confessions.
Some described what they were feeling, "uncontrollable urge" according to David Gore, others were less clear, some just blocked it out. At the point where Shawcroft has died, Tony and his family are discussing the confessions provided by Shawcroft. Tony finally realizes that Shawcroft's confessions are the alternate reality that Shawcroft created in his mind, and those alternate realities are not new to the investigators or to the psycologists who interviewed and studied these people.
So it seems that Tony has been manipulated into publishing the alternate realities of these SKs. Which were hair clippings. Gore never explains why the hair clippings, or why even trophies, much less why he committed such crimes.
By the end of the book, when Tony is trying to create a relationship with Hanson, Bryan Tompkins enters the script. Based on Bryan's information, there is a realistic hope that Tony may have helped uncover the location of some of Hanson's victims, and that more victims of other SKs may be located.
It is also apparent that Tony is getting more comfortable with his new persona. I also think that Bryan Tompkins would have made for a more interesting subject. He is definitely more introspective and more open about sharing his thoughts and feelings. But his appearance is all too short. Apr 02, Nikki in Niagara rated it really liked it.
Reason for Reading: Various reasons really. First of all I have an interest in serial killers. Secondly, I was intrigued by Tony Ciaglia's brain injury and what led him to write to serial killers and finally I enjoy books that contains letters.
This book is not for the squeamish. It contains brutal letters from serial killers describing their crimes in graphic detail.
Without having read the book, one will first wonder what purpose this serves. Is it gratuitous and voyeuristic or does it serve so Reason for Reading: Various reasons really. Is it gratuitous and voyeuristic or does it serve some higher purpose?
It is completely possible to read the book and skip the letters that describe murders, not all the letters do. What the letters do though, all of them, is let one inside the mind of a serial killer in a way that the public has never seen before. When serial killers posture for interviews or psychologists they are performing for an audience and act and behave in certain ways that these narcissistic people need to do so. The first part of the book deals with Tony's teenage accident which caused Traumatic Brain Injury TBI from which he was never expected to recover.
Recover he did though and we are taken through the journey of his recovery and the effect this had on his family and the after effects that defined the "new" Tony. A more child-like person, but with sudden violent rages. With much psychological work and the right medications, Tony is leading a relatively normal life today. I found this part of the book fascinating. Something in the "new" Tony starts his obsession with writing to serial killers, befriending them and getting them to talk openly about things that had never come out to officials before.
After Tony's accident he had a near death experience where he met God and became a very religious Catholic. His family was Catholic but not exactly practicing. He believed that God had sent him back for a purpose and this was his purpose, to help find information on cold cases and bring closure for families by using his gift with these men. The end of the book contains a personal message from Tony where he speaks of his calling. A riveting book to read.
The graphic letters are hard to read, but they and the other more mundane or waxing philosophical letters from the serial killers are quite insightful into the harrowing sickness of their minds. I enjoyed reading the book, was mostly taken with Tony himself. He has a child-like naivete about him, yet he didn't lose any of his intelligence in the accident, even though it is harder for him to express himself intellectually.
A very interesting book on two accounts. For the insight into the psychological make-up of the mind of a serial killer and the psychological insight into the mind of a TBI victim and survivor. Recommended for those interested in psychology and those with the stomach to read the graphic details.
Mar 19, D'Anne rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction. This was, by far, the most graphic and explicit book about serial killers I have ever read. And I have read many. At the beginning of the book the author quotes author Jack Olsen: "I start every book with the idea that I want to explain how this seven or eight pounds of protoplasm went from his mommy's arms to become a serial rapist or serial killer. I think a crime book that doesn't do this is pure pornography. But honestly, I'm not sur This was, by far, the most graphic and explicit book about serial killers I have ever read.
But honestly, I'm not sure that Earley accomplishes this task. I read this book because it's about a kid who gets a traumatic brain injury who becomes obsessed with serial killers. The title of the book hints at big secrets being revealed, like cold cases solved and stuff. That's a small part of this story. The "secrets" by and large seem to be extremely graphic descriptions of rapes and murders in the killers' own words.
Mostly I found myself shaking my head asking, "Why do this kid's parents condone this pen pal with murderers thing? The part of the book spent on the kid's brain injury was the strongest part of the book.
Mar 29, Alana Bloom dreamcomereview rated it it was ok Shelves: non-fiction , true-crime. First, this review doesn't apply to the narrator of the audiobook. They get a solid 4 stars, knocking one off for using the same accent for every killer Tony talks to. The book is largely told in two parts: Tony's accident then struggle to reset and find his new normal after a TBI, and then his obsession with writing serial killers to learn their stories.
I enjoyed the first part the most if I'm being honest. I was frustrated by the constant pace changes and hopping timeline, it made the story d First, this review doesn't apply to the narrator of the audiobook. I was frustrated by the constant pace changes and hopping timeline, it made the story disorganized and truly irritated me. I consume a fair amount of true crime stories, from books to shows to podcasts, so the brutality generally doesn't bother me; provided it has a purpose.
I'm not convinced communicating with the serial killers like an awestruck teen counts as being a "whisperer. In the end, the "conversations" with serial killers really only served as a platform for these killers to perform and manipulate further. No effort was made to "unlock" the information that was shared. In fact, often Tony took what they wrote at face value which is awfully naive. In the end, I'm glad I read the first half but wish the story didn't go off into the weeds of questionable to put it mildly.
Aug 29, Tlingit rated it liked it Shelves: biography-autobiography. Anyway, to sum it up: Good story, good composition, basic writing, dumb title.
I'd seen a movie called "Dear Mr. Gacy" this Spring. It's a true story about a young guy who wrote to some serial killers: Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. And he didn't just write to them he got involved with them.
The people here who have issue with Tony's parents and their involvement would do good to see this movie I haven't read the book so until I do I can't say I recommend it. It's a contrast to Tony and his family and their style and involvement. I wouldn't call Tony's TBI a lucky occurrence. I would call the fact that his family is supportive a lucky occurrence and juxtaposed with some of the serial killers lives it lends a good contrast to the story and the reality between the recovering TBI person and the incarcerated defective convict.
I found in some of the former reviews people judgmental and disgusted, not only with the serial killers but with the main character. That just made me laugh because c'mon the lurid title to this book can't be ignored and in my opinion is more offensive than the descriptions. You knew what you were getting into when you got this book.
If you didn't like the descriptions why force yourself to read? There was action in the book as well as the letters. I too wished there were more cold cases solved at the end but maybe this story is not over.
There were so many things that could have been included but for time and story continuity weren't. The fact that the serial killers and at pivotal period in his life Tony felt alienated from society and reacted to it was a point that is presented in many serial killer stories but told better here with them writing to him. I think the book deserved more than just 3 stars but this rating system is limited. It's worth a read. It took me a night and a day.
I wished there was more. Feb 07, Melissa rated it really liked it. This book was suggested to me by a random woman at the library. I normally do not read this type of book however it was good. It is about a boy who is involved in an accident that leaves him with brain damage.
It is about that whole process of him and his family going thourgh the issues that come with his type of damage. One of the things that happen is that the kids at school alienated the once popular child. It is hard for him and with the type of brain injury already suffers from extreme This book was suggested to me by a random woman at the library.
It is hard for him and with the type of brain injury already suffers from extreme depression and anger. He decided to start writing serial killers and they wrote back to his surprise. The book also has letters in them from several people that are in jail for life and on deaths row.
They strike up a friendship and let their guard down to Anthony and write all the horrible details of their crimes. You see killers state of minds as well. This book is graphic and I have to be honest disturbing to me. I started the book and once I did it was like driving past an accident scene were I did not want to look but I could not stop myself. This book is not for the faint at heart. I feel so bad for the victims and their families that there were times that I thought this is horrible for me to read this however I learned something from these crazy men.
What I learned it was so easy for them to get their pray as they called it because people are so trusting. Several women found that they had car trouble and when offered a ride to what ever place and got into a car with two men and after that they had not a chance they died because of that decision.
They not only died but were tortured because they were ver trusting good people. Most of the crimes happened when people did not have cell phones. I did take lessons of how to protect myself and It made me think and that is not a bad thing. I am just trully sorry that these families lost thier loved ones. Here is what Kirkus had to say about it. Deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines! I will be posting a new blog next Monday and, hopefully, each Monday after that.
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