Happy Like Murderers

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Creo, muy seriamente, que este libro en las manos equivocadas podría crear desgracias, pues a través de la muy detallada narrativa de los horrores de Cromwell Street lo lleva a uno a entender las entrañas del mal, a pensar como lo hicieron aquellos responsables de cosas horrorosas, a tener esas imágenes e ideas en la cabeza. Este libro nos cuenta la historia de Fred y Rose West, seguramente a más de alguno se les harán familiares sus nombres, pues lamentablemente, estamos ante un caso real. Having watched the recent drama Appropriate Adult I saw a review for this book. I grew up in Gloucester and had read previous books about Fred and Rose but none of them got under my skin in quite the way this one did. The style that Gordon Burn uses in this book is not conventional but rather mirrors the rambling style of Fred West's speech, moving from the ordinary to the extraordinary in a moment. Parts of the dialogue are repeated through the book giving it emphasis and applying equally to his early life until the end.

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-01-06 17:38:39 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA176101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City [London] DonorDavid Robson writes: I was fortunate to be a friend of Gordon's for nearly 40 years, and as a magazine editor commissioned many pieces from him. He always knew what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it. Not much editing was required, which was just as well – he didn't take kindly to it. He had a phenomenal eye for telling detail, an acute ear and an unusual ability to get to the truth of a situation. From the start he was clear to the point of truculence about what he was and was not interested in, and over the years he showed such constancy of vision and fixity of purpose that his became a strong and unique voice. He was never middle-of-the-road, and spotted many truths about modern life that others missed. Es un libro que me hizo sentir sucia, monstruosa, y a la vez, decente, pues por mas que pueda tener esas ideas en la cabeza, (y de cierta forma es lo que el quería, enfrentarlo a uno con su monstruo interior) realizarlas me parecería una atrocidad. Lifers is a fantastic overview of some of the most well-known serial killers. Author Geoffrey Wansell spent over twenty years up close and personal with many notorious names. A chance to get into the psyche of some of these unforgettable criminals, Wansell brings us a fascinating collection of interviews, first-hand accounts and unexpected insights into the minds of the most feared criminals. It’s also a chance to see how behaviours change once they realise that “life means life”. Happy Like Murderers (2019) - Gordon Burn No hay dudas sobre la capacidad de investigacion de Gordon Burn, pero al momento de plasmar toda esa investigacion/conocimiento encuentro grandes fallas. Hence a reader who makes it to the end of this book, may be have to cast about for another account to get the complete picture. Now I'm was in this boat, and though I felt I should while the facts from Happy Like Murderers are fresh in the mind, to be honest, reading another book on the Wests was not a prospect I relished. However I did end up making a trip to the local library and skimmed through a couple of tomes to answer some of my questions on the case. Of the several I looked at, I would recommned Colin Wilson's The Corpse Garden (True Crime Library/Forum Press 1998) which is a concise but through account of the facts of the case with some interesting psychological analysis thrown in.

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-18 10:00:46 Boxid IA40113119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Solo me queda decir que he quedado fascinada y aterrada al terminar de leer este libro. A veces la realidad supera la ficción, y los West son para mí la personificación de toda aquella maldad que vive en nosotros, esa oscuridad que mantenemos oculta y a raya, a la espera de una oportunidad, para cometer los actos más crueles. Solo se necesita una chispa, y el círculo vicioso comienza… Los West torturaron, secuestraron y asesinaron a una serie de mujeres por un período que ronda los 20 años. En 1994 la policía encontró enterrado en el jardín del matrimonio, el cuerpo de su hija Heather. La maldad está en todos lados, en un rostro amable, en una mano amiga, y tal vez en el lugar menos esperado, tu propia familia. One of the saddest and most moving murder cases is that of Keith Bennett. Known to be one of the victims of the Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the pair never shared the location of his body. They murdered five children in total, three found on Saddleworth Moor in shallow graves and the other in their home. Keith’s body has still not been recovered, and in Staff’s book The Lost Boy, he puts forward a case for where the body might be. Terribly sad but powerfully compelling, this is another book true crime lovers will need in their collection.

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In 1995 I went down to stay with him and Carol in a cottage they rented for a few weeks in Cornwall. He had just finished writing his second novel, Fullalove, and gave me the typescript to read, a potentially hazardous privilege. What if I didn't like it? I loved it, couldn't put it down, stayed up all night reading. I was relieved, chuffed and proud to have a friend who had done something so damn good. As soon as he got up I told him so, but I'm sure he already knew. urn:lcp:happylikemurdere00gord:epub:caaf7e5a-013a-4667-85a1-aa3a7e094f3f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier happylikemurdere00gord Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9g45t076 Isbn 0571195466 The bowel cancer from which Burns died was diagnosed only recently, and it is not yet clear whether his latest novel, set in Rome in the 1950s and again illuminated by coincidences, will be published posthumously. The fascination with celebrity continued in his final journalism, including a piece on Jade Goody for the Guardian. Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers (Faber & Faber 1998) is a very difficult book. At several points during reading this, the book was put down for several days and it was touch and go whether I'd return to it. But return I did, and eventually finished it. And I can't say I was glad to either - on one hand, it was good to get to the end of an exceedingly tough book but even after you finish it tends to linger in the mind for a good long while.

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Anyhow, to the book itself - basically this an account of the lives of Fred and Rose West, the notorious UK serial murder couple. First thing to note, is that it is an account of their lives and not just the crimes they committed. It is closer to biography than most true crime books. Secondly it it written in a style somewhere between a biography and a novel. This isn't to say that this is a fictionalized account of the proceedings, but it is does use a good deal of literary flourishes that are more commonly found in a novel.Gordon Burn nos relata con lujo de detalle los terribles acontecimientos ocurridos en la casa de Rose y Fred West, donde fueron hallados los cadáveres de varias mujeres, incluyendo el de Heather, la hija mayor de los West. El autor va más allá de la casa, y nos transporta al pasado de estos asesinos en serie, intentando comprender y encontrar el origen de tanta maldad. Books like this shine lights of horror on aspects of society we generally leave to the most hapless social services. Incest families. Throwaway children. Disappearing teenagers. Here’s a good question for all you lovers of literature – what’s the connection between Fred West and the Booker Prize? Answer: one of the 11 females he killed was Martin Amis’s cousin. And so on. The images are so standard, so monotonous. Yet they are images sanctioned, at some level or other, by the community. Not only sanctioned, but offered out, to men in particular, on a commercial basis. For reasons peculiar to industrial society, sex and violence are wedded in the public imagination, not only at the level of pornography, but also in the standard images we feed ourselves, from television thrillers to advertising. That these images are degrading to women is well-established, but they also degrade men. The equation of sex with violence distorts and inhibits the masculine imagination, ruling out any number of erotic and sensual possibilities and reducing the consumer either to passive voyeur or mere instrument, fascinated and shamed by the desire for unobtainable potency. That Fred, a loner, a watcher, a man obsessed with mechanical power, should become addicted to such fantasies may come as no surprise. But what about his wife?