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John Blake Talking with Psychopaths and Savages Guilty but Insane.
John Blake Talking with Psychopaths and Savages Guilty but Insane ABISBOOK John Blake.
288 pages, Paperback
Published September 12, 2024
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Christopher Berry-Dee
75 books343 followersChris was a former Royal Marine intelligence officer. He is now a criminologist who has interviewed over 30 serial killers.
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May 22, 2025I had been so excited for Talking With Psychopaths: Guilty But Insane, and had been wanting to read it for so long, but it became apparent very quickly that I wasn’t going to enjoy it as much as I had expected. With the cases explored and the general idea of the book, it had the potential to be a fantastic read, which made the reality of it a lot more disappointing.
Despite the cases being super interesting, the way the author speaks was just something I couldn’t get on board with. He spends a lot of time attempting to crack jokes that are simply not funny, and most of the time completely irrelevant to what the book is supposed to be about. He also regularly goes off on a tangent, and rambles. There was simply not enough focus on the cases, or the minds of those involved. I wanted to learn about the minds of psychopaths, not the author’s opinion on American churches, or Fifty Shades of Grey! It made the book difficult to get through, if you managed to get through it at all, which I didn’t.
I have a couple of the author’s other books, which have been described as “must reads”, so I will give them a chance still, and fingers crossed they'll be better than this one…
Due to DNF’ing, I won’t be giving Talking With Psychopaths: Guilty But Insane a star rating.
Despite the cases being super interesting, the way the author speaks was just something I couldn’t get on board with. He spends a lot of time attempting to crack jokes that are simply not funny, and most of the time completely irrelevant to what the book is supposed to be about. He also regularly goes off on a tangent, and rambles. There was simply not enough focus on the cases, or the minds of those involved. I wanted to learn about the minds of psychopaths, not the author’s opinion on American churches, or Fifty Shades of Grey! It made the book difficult to get through, if you managed to get through it at all, which I didn’t.
I have a couple of the author’s other books, which have been described as “must reads”, so I will give them a chance still, and fingers crossed they'll be better than this one…
Due to DNF’ing, I won’t be giving Talking With Psychopaths: Guilty But Insane a star rating.
March 13, 2025
75% DNF
Im mad i paid for this.
Im mad i paid for this.
May 13, 2025
Overall it’s a good analysis of whether or not killers are insane but I was deeply unimpressed with the countless spelling and grammar mistakes and the way the author talked about female prostitutes and women in general. Authors of this type of non fiction are supposed to be impartial….
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