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.
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.
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