SLCLS Genre Study discussion

I have just read two books about people who call themselves victims, but really deserve whatever big slam happens to them. The first was Cold-blooded kindness : neuroquirks of a codependent killer, or, Just give me a shot at loving you, dear : and other reflections on helping that hurts by by Oakley, Barbara A., 1955- It happened in Utah, where a woman says her husband beats her, shoots him, drags him outside and a day later reports him dead. She has a whole history of manipulating men and using them, (I missed her on my Utah criminals), but by the time I finished this book I wanted justice to be done to the little slimebag. Then I just finished The last victim : a true-life journey into the mind of the serial killer by Moss, Jason. (I'll hurry and get that back) and I was so mad at him for being so stupid to think he could outwit John Wayne Gacy, that I kind of hoped he would just get killed. I knew he didn't but I thought maybe someone else would have finished the book when he got knocked off. I worked in the jail for a lot of years and had a lot of training and would never have been that stupid. Rather than Last Victim, he should have called himself Bait. Of course I read both books all the way through, just because I think people are idiots, doesn't mean I shouldn't read about them. I watch TV shows when I want the bad person to die, so books shouldn't be any different. I guess books can have more than 1 bad person.

I read Cold-Blooded Kindness a few months ago, and I, too, really wanted people to see through this woman and all her manipulations and just put her away already. I kept wondering how people kept falling for her crap.

The worst are the doctors who fall for their line of deceit. "Inside the mind of Casey Anthony" by Keith Ablow.

I just finished "Pretty little killers : the truth behind the savage murder of Skylar Neese"by Berry, Daleen, and again, not really well written and the pictures were not at all worth it. A picture of her house, her dog, her school. She was a kid, and fell in with bad kids, and every parent tries to tell their kids to stay away from bad friends, and she certainly didn't deserve to be stabbed to death, but I didn't find myself feeling sorry for her in this book. However I didn't feel the killers were justified either.