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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. How on earth can you rate a book written by a serial killer? Can you say that you liked it? Because Nielsen can write and his book (more than half of it about his prison years) is a rare insight to the mind of a rationalist but sick mind. ( ) Dennis Nilsen seems to be the serial killer of the moment. Several books and TV documentaries have or are coming out about him. This is his autobiography. It is very hard to read and just as hard to review. Most of the book talks about his sexual fantasies, which include fantasies of having sex with young boys. I really had a hard time with it. Now don't get me wrong, the book is actually written very well, but it is the subject matter that was hard. I wanted to read it for the murders, which are just a very small part of the book. It does give you a sense of how his mind worked. He did talk about his time in the military, which gave him a lot of training. But his impulses always seemed to take over. If you can handle explicit sexual fantasies and talk, this is an interesting book. But if you are looking to know mostly about his murders, this is not the book for that. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Dennis Nilsen was one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, jailed for life in 1983 after the murders of 12 men and the attempted murders of many more.Seven years after his conviction, Nilsen began to write his autobiography, and over a period of 18 years he typed 6,000 pages of introspection, reflection, comment and explanation.History of a Drowning Boy - taken exclusively from these astonishing writings - uncovers, for the first time, the motives behind the murders, and delivers a clear understanding of how such horrific events could have happened, tracing the origins back to early childhood.In another first, it provides an insight into his 35 years inside the maximum-security prison system, including his everyday life on the wings; his interactions with the authorities and other notorious prisoners; and his artistic endeavours of music, writing and drama. It also reveals the truth behind many of the myths surrounding Dennis Nilsen, as reported in the media.Nilsen was determined to have his memoir published but to his frustration, the Home Office blocked publication during his lifetime. He died in 2018 entrusting the manuscript to his closest friend and it is now being published with the latter's permission.Any autobiography presents the writer's story from just one perspective: his own, and as such this record should be treated with some caution. An excellent foreword by criminologist Dr Mark Pettigrew offers some context to Nilsen's words, and this important work provides an extraordinary journey through the life of a remarkable and inadequate man. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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