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The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare

by Don Davis

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Brandon Wayne said: " I left the star "rating" blank, because I still have hopes that this book will improve. I am a little more than halfway through reading it and I am yet to be impressed. Don Davis writing is that of a pretentious high school jack ass. One of the thing I left the star "rating" blank, because I still have hopes that this book will improve. I am a little more than halfway through reading it and I am yet to be impressed. Don Davis writing is that of a pretentious high school jack ass. One of the things I love most about true crime books is that they read like fiction. One can get lost in the content of a true crime book, and once the realization of its 'based on a true story' stance comes back to the mind, it becomes more terrifying. However, Don's style of writing seems as though he is trying too hard to make it sound like fiction (in some areas).

He begins his book with Dahmer's Laotian victim. Several chapters later, he brings up the exact same content again. A few more chapters go by and he talks about it again. Amidst another chapter (in which he talks about a couple victims leading up to the Laotian boy), he details this victim again. He leaves out some very important details about the manner in which he treated his victims (such as his 'zombifying' treatments), and makes every victim's death seem exactly the same as the one before.

Don titles all of his chapters, and starts writing about things that seem to fit that title for a paragraph or two, and then rambles on with something completely different. (Eg: the chapter titled Grandma's House talks more about the history of the city as apposed to Dahmer's grandmother's house).

I keep hoping that the book will get better as I read further, but I continue to be let down. According to several reviews on here, I don't think it will get any better (thanks for the warning). And some of the reviews on here seem to have read another book (not this one), because they mention the graphic detail of the book. The graphic detail in which the book actually lacks. Yes it discusses the murders, and what he did with the bodies, but non of it is as graphic (in my opinion).

I would strongly advise that you don't read this book. There are far better true crime books about serial killers than this. ...more "

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— May 21, 2014 10:03PM

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