2016 Reading: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare

#34 A book from the library

And to make it EXTRA legit, this is a book from a completely different library system that I had to special order.

Okay, I don't need to know the history of the state since the beginning of time. I really don't. I got a book about Jeffrey Dahmer because I wanted to read about Jeffrey Dahmer (not that I don't already know nearly all there is to learn about him, but STILL) not all this other nonsense. If I wanted to read about the rubber tire industry of Akron, Ohio I would have gotten a different book.

This book led me in a lot of different directions that I previously have not gone with this particular killer. One thing I hated was the way they kept referring to him as a mass murderer. He was NOT a mass murderer.

A serial killer is conventionally defined

as a person who murders three or more

people in a period of over a  month, with

"cooling down" time between murders.

[...]

Mass murderers, unlike serial killers,

kill a large number of people, typically

at the same time in a single location.

(http://www.crimemuseum.org/)

Not. The same. Thing.

What with that and the part where they felt it necessary to go back and tell the entire history of the state of Wisconsin at the beginning of every chapter, I found this book to be not as interesting as I wanted it to be. They glossed over a lot of facts and details and focused on everything else BUT what Jeffrey Dahmer was doing and his victims, which is al I really wanted from this book in the first place.

Not my favorite serial killer book by far.

2016 Reading: Peter Pan

#1 A book based on a fairy tale

Oh My God.

Michael killed a guy. Little tiny Michael who was still in a tiny onesie carrying a teddy bear... killed a guy.

OOPS! KILLED A MAN

Also, when boys got too old, Peter "thins them out."

Everything you know about Peter Pan is a lie.

Everything.

This book was a lot longer than I expected. Lots of drawn out stuff that turned out to be nonsense. Details of things and events that had no meaning within the story. And not that much interaction with the pirates in general.

Meh.

I ended up reading most of this at work since I found a place to read it online.

2016 Reading: The Story of Vampires

 This was the first book of the year! I am going to be doing a book challenge this year. 40 books with different subjects and stuff.

This book is #9 on the list: "A book that's under 150 pages."

I've had this on my shelf a while and I kinda wanted to get it over with because I turned all of the books on my shelf (that I have not read) sideways. This will activate my OCD and I thought it would be a good way to force me to read what I already have rather than buy new or keep bringing tons of books home from work.

This was a short little 85 page thing about vampires. Kinda hoaky. Made for kids, I think. It had pictures and basically I knew everything that was in it anyway.

But it still counts, damnit.