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Chargement... Delivered from Evil: True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survivedpar Ron Franscell
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  anastaciaknits | Oct 29, 2016 |   Although I really like a long book chock full of all the gory details, sometimes I just want to breeze through a book, when that happens a collection of short stories will do. These are all true accounts and in my cheeky Goodreads review all I said was this book was first rate. Most of the accounts of the shootings / murders are, just the facts ma'am, the most detail comes from the surviving victims stories. Every chapter gives the survivors name and the name of the shooting, the focus is on the victims, I like this, so often the killers get all the press. Some of these events were familiar to me, some I had never heard about. Like the book before this, this book has added more books to my, I want to read this pile. Some shootings: (listing the ones I already knew about) The McDonald's Massacre in San Ysidro, California; The Luby's Massacre in Killeen Texas; Tim Ursin and the Howard Johnson Sniper (I think I read this on Ron's Facebook Page), New Orleans, Louisiana; the University of Texas Clock Tower shooter, Austin, Texas. I definitely recommend this book. (  ) BellaFoxx | Feb 5, 2016 | What I liked was these were stories I had not heard before except the Charles (W)hitman story. I have been wishing for a book about him for 10 years or so so I was glad with the short story about him. What made me like this book even more was that the author when he described heights and stuff he would use the American and add the European conversion. I wish all writers would do that. The stories were very interesting and now I want to read more short stories. (  ) Marlene-NL | Apr 12, 2013 | There are soooo many books about people's criminal activities and I thought this one was supposed to be different from those, but it really wasn't. It was like the author just wanted to write another book about crimes and dressed it up a bit with the "survivors' stories" angle. (  ) meggyweg | May 6, 2012 | ) rob80ert | Jun 16, 2011 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML: A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . . And, astonishingly, they all survived. From Howard Unruh's 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee's reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror. Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldn't kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnageâ??and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives. In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Franscell's writing style is not my favorite - more a tabloid, sensationalist style, then plain face, but the subject is interesting. His writing style does make the book very readable, though this isn't a book you are going to read in one or two evenings - it's too horrible. There's a similarity between all of the murderers and the aftermath and how the survivors all coped.
Reading a book like this makes one wonder how quickly your whole life can change, and really makes me want to step up my game today, because tomorrow may never come.
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borrowed from the library as an e-book
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