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I've read, and would suggest Hallucinations by Oliver Sachs. If you've ever seen Awakenings with Denero and Robin Williams, it's based on Oliver Sachs work and life with the patients at that time in his life. There is also a book about that also.Haven't read it, but plan to.
 
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Seeing that I live one town over from Clearwater, Florida, I was obsessed with Oba Chandler. He lured vacationing mom and her 2 teenaged daughters on his boat for a sunset cruise, sexually assaulted them, tied each one to a concrete block and dumped them overboard while they were still alive. Thank God he was finally caught and was executed. Then there is Aileen Wournos, Ted Bundy, Danny Rolling. All of them committed their crimes in Florida and all are now dead.
 
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History mostly, but a lot of it. Anything that has to do with WWI, WWII, European and American history is a go.
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I am just finishing up Escape from Colditz, you can probably find it pretty cheap on many sites.. It's amazing all the things that the prisoners of war did to try and escape.. very ingenious and brave those guys were..
 
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Lynnie L said:
Seeing that I live one town over from Clearwater, Florida, I was obsessed with Oba Chandler. He lured vacationing mom and her 2 teenaged daughters on his boat for a sunset cruise, sexually assaulted them, tied each one to a concrete block and dumped them overboard while they were still alive. Thank God he was finally caught and was executed. Then there is Aileen Wournos, Ted Bundy, Danny Rolling. All of them committed their crimes in Florida and all are now dead.
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Each one of them is "unique" and "fascinating" in his own twisted way. I'd have to say that Chikatilo and Pichushkin stand out with over 100 killed between the two of them. There must have been more in the USSR, but things like that weren't publicized until late 1980s, since serial killers were "the creation of the rotten and morally corrupt West," this never happened in Communist Utopia. Neither of them was anywhere near where I grew up (Belarus, one of the former Soviet republics). Having lived in NYC for the past almost 22 years, makes Rifkin and Berkowitz also "interesting." However, in my book, Ed Gein takes the cake, given that without him, there wouldn't be "Psycho", there wouldn't be "The Silence of the Lambs" or numerous other books and movies inspired by him. Yeah, lots of serial killers had movies made about their exploits, but none have inspired that many fictional characters. "Danse Macabre" would've been a dozen or so pages shorter, if you think about it.
Dahmer comes in close second, followed by Gacy (killer clown - sound familiar?)
 
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Yep, no question about it regarding Gein. Just watched a documentary about Arthur Shawcross from NYC, who talked about his murders like he was telling what he had for lunch that day. Scary. As far as the killer clown, there's a really good book called The Last Victim by Jason Moss. He wrote to serial killers to write his dissertation about them, and ended up corresponding with Gacy frequently, as well as talking on the phone with him and visiting him in prison. It's a scary thing to see how manipulative Gacy was, and several years later Moss committed suicide. The poor guy got in way over his head, I guess. Thought he was using Gacy and Gacy was using him. I recommend the book if this sort of thing interests you!
 
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mjs9153 said:
I am just finishing up Escape from Colditz, you can probably find it pretty cheap on many sites.. It's amazing all the things that the prisoners of war did to try and escape.. very ingenious and brave those guys were..
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That's a must-read for me then. Stories like that are absolutely fascinating. My great-uncle was in one of those POW camps in WWII and somehow managed to survive a mass execution. My late grandpa never talked about the war or wore his few medals. The only story he ever told me, was about how one NCO saved his life when his unit was fording a river while retreating from the advancing Nazis. They are the only two out of their family who survived the war. Both parents and 4 sisters were executed by the Nazis.
 
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Lynnie L said:
Yep, no question about it regarding Gein. Just watched a documentary about Arthur Shawcross from NYC, who talked about his murders like he was telling what he had for lunch that day. Scary. As far as the killer clown, there's a really good book called The Last Victim by Jason Moss. He wrote to serial killers to write his dissertation about them, and ended up corresponding with Gacy frequently, as well as talking on the phone with him and visiting him in prison. It's a scary thing to see how manipulative Gacy was, and several years later Moss committed suicide. The poor guy got in way over his head, I guess. Thought he was using Gacy and Gacy was using him. I recommend the book if this sort of thing interests you!
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Thanks. I'll look for the book.
 
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I read the occasional non-fiction book, but I am trying to read more. I recently read God Is Now Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George is next on my non-fiction reading list, also The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku.
 
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I read the occasional non-fiction book, but I am trying to read more. I recently read God Is Now Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George is next on my non-fiction reading list, also The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku.
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I read God is Not Great. I thought it was a good book.
 
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I like the bios, the autobios, history (any place in time, everything and anything), and KitchenAid Mixer manuals (except for model KSM150AGBRI, that would just be stupid).
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Have you seen the Model K45SSOB0? Now that one is the kicker!

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Stranger.Danger said:
I read the occasional non-fiction book, but I am trying to read more. I recently read God Is Now Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George is next on my non-fiction reading list, also The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku.
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Dana Jean said:
I read God is Not Great. I thought it was a good book.
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This book opened my eyes to so much.
May I recommend The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins? Excellent.
 
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