Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth

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One of my issues with this book was that even though it featured lesser-known serial killers, it continued to quote and constantly find a way to bring other well-known serial killers into the story. This frustrated me as I wanted to know more about the killers in this book not the killers that I already knew so much about. In the introduction it is implied that this book is about serial killers he has interviewed but most serial killers included he hasn't met (the only one he has actually interviewed is the last one and he barely references his material for that). In each of cases he inserts other serial killers and various quotes from different interviews that have no relevance to the current case. it comes across as just name dropping different criminals - like oh look at me I interviewed this criminal ha ha I'm so good at everything. Another big issue with this book was the writing. There were quite a few grammar errors, which shouldn't happen. I'm not sure if this book was actually proof read before print. Beyond Evil is an eye-opening examination of the evil actions some will do to others while managing to pass as an ordinary person on the outside. Most of all, it highlights the problem of identifying psychopaths who kill, which I think is always a fascinating conversation. How do you know somebody is evil? How do you know who is telling the truth?

The fact that most of this book is just blaming gun laws in USA (I’m from England) makes the whole book feel like a it was just to piss off the Americans. This book is also filled with absolute blab about guns, and confusing and unnecessary explanations of them. I’ve never seen so many unneeded numbers and letters to describe a gun. For example (this is a made up combination of letters and numbers and not an actual extract of the book); the AK47 .345 x100ft per millisecond squared by the moisture in the air at the time of shot, is the equivalent of the handheld .356738 calibre of a handheld water pistol at a water park in Disney. In this book he focuses specifically on the phenomenon of mass murders and spree killers. CBD delves deep into American gun culture, school shootings, historical shootings, UK based massacres such as Hungerford and Dunblane before concluding with some thoughts on the "incel phenomenon". Having interviewed over thirty of these twisted murderers, whose homicidal craft and skills strangulation; suffocation; knifing; bludgeoning their prey to death; setting victims on fire alive; shooting; injecting with caustic agents and just about every other tortuous means of extinguishing life known to deviant man, I go further than ever before in this book by inviting you to the Gates of Hell. So this book is not for the squeamish. It will not make for a comfortable bedtime read because it is solely intended to put you inside the heads of those killers who thrive on pure evil' - from the author's introduction. A lot of self promotion from the author, I think every chapter mentions one of his other books. A whole paragraph of it at one point.

Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth TALKING WITH PSYCHOPATHS AND SAVAGES has a low average rating on Goodreads and now I know why, I don't usually like calling out the author if it's down to just a poor story but this true crime book came across as really tedious. Christopher Berry-Dee does not know how to write or how to not come across as an a**hole. Add to all this the near constant spelling and grammatical errors as well as jumbled up dates (he claims that Oscar Pisotorius murdered Reeva Steenkamp in 2013 and 2015, then says the trial was in 2014... like I said - Wikipedia would be more informative) and you have what I can safely say is the worst book I have ever read. If this is your first foray into true crime and you don’t want to actively lose brain cells, read I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara instead. She never bragged about how great she was, never made fun of the Golden State Killer’s victims and her book was clearly proof read before it was published. Not only the worst true crime book I’ve ever read, but Talking With Psychopaths and Savages is possibly the worst BOOK I’ve ever read. Berry-Dee is considered to be “the UK’s top true crime writer” and yet he is the most narcissistic, self-serving, irritating and arrogant author I’ve ever come across. If you thought John Douglas was a tad egotistical while reading Mindhunter, believe me - he ain’t got nothin’ on Berry-Dee.

Christoper Berry-Dee had some great insights and a lot of experience talking to killers, unfortunately, I don’t feel we got enough of his knowledge in this book. I would have loved to have heard more from his interviews with killers and less about killers that weren’t the subject of this particular book. Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quântica Saying that, his writing style was quite easy to read. It was informal and quite humours in places too.

There’s no interviews with any criminals in this book at all. All the author ever states about mass murderers or spree killers is who they are and how many people they killed. Also, I don’t need to know that much detail about the guns used? Like, it’s really boring to try and read through what velocity the bullets would fire at from a certain range? There is not one point at which you actually get to read ANY of his apparent MILLION interviews with murderers and serial killers. Lost count of how many times I read the sentence, “I’ve interviewed him twice before.” Where can I read that interview, if not in a book entitled TALKING WITH PSYCHOPATHS AND SAVAGES? A noted writer and criminologist of many years' standing, Christopher Berry-Dee is also the author of the bestselling Talking to Serial Killers.... Some of the things in this one were really quite disturbing and it was an eye opener to read about some of the bad guys that I hadn't come across before.

PDF / EPUB File Name: Talking_with_psychopaths_and_savages_-_Christopher_Berry-Dee.pdf, Talking_with_psychopaths_and_savages_-_Christopher_Berry-Dee.epub There are undertones of sexism, brash opinions that aren't objective nor well rounded, and at one point he says if you disagree with his point of view, that means you are okay with having your wife or children raped and murdered and their corpses left out to rot in the cold (no joke).

The worst thing for me though, is how he speaks about the victims of these murders. He constantly describes the physical appearances of the women, focusing on how beautiful they are or the shape of their bodies as if that has anything to do with anything. He describes murdered sex workers as ‘hookers’ and implies that it wasn’t as bad for them to be killed as it was for the other ‘decent young women’ who died, presumably because he deemed whatever jobs they had (we don’t find out most of the time because their actions in life were seemingly not as important as their looks to this ‘writer’) as proof that they were better people who deserved to live.

I have read many books about serial killers in the past so I was excited to jump into this one. Unfortunately, this book just didn’t live up to my expectations. However, the longer it went on, the less it had to give. There was an extent to which it became somewhat repetitive and (as a consequence also of how grim and upsetting some of the descriptions were) less compelling a read. It also said little about 'lesser' psychopaths and those who function better in society thus don't end up rapists or killers. In comparison with Jon Ronson's book on a similar subject, it was less rounded and inferior. Talking with Psychopaths and Savages - a Journey Into the Evil Mind: A Chilling Study of the Most Cold-Blooded, Manipulative People on Planet Earth Talking with Psychopaths and Savages will inevitably shift the reader's view of those capable of the most heinous murders, and in doing so reveals that horror can be much closer to us than we think. This is the first and last book I'll be reading by Berry-Dee. What a terrible book by a terrible author.Talking With Psychopaths and Savages was the UK's bestselling true-crime title of 2017, and he is now the country's No. 1 true-crime author. The way he treats the cases has nothing original or insightful, there is no Talking with Psychopaths, it just feels like he copy-pasted juicy bits from Wikipedia. Still, mister Berry-Dee is very happy to "get in the mind of the monster" (even for cases that are 80 years old and poorly documented), where nothing interesting happens, except for emptiness and cliché being followed by completely uncalled for, useless and extremely superficial simplistic moral judgment. Yet in the course of these conversations, the author also had the chance to interview his subjects' psychiatrists and, in doing so, uncovered a terrible truth: a monster can be hidden behind a friendly face. Some of these experts, he found, proved to have more in common with their patients than he would ever have expected. I loved that this book covered less well-known serial killers; usually, these books just examine the same few famous serial killers. I was really excited to learn about these killers I didn’t know much about; especially the non-American killers. This is not a book for the squeamish, but it is undeniably fascinating in its portrayal of just what one human being will do to others - while all too often moving among us unnoticed and unhindered. If their crimes seem as incomprehensible as they are horrific, it is undeniably true that the world's most savage killers may be much closer than we think . . .