Catch Me a Killer
I’ve said it here dozens of times that I’m a true-crime story buff and well, I just finished another serial killer book. I’ve read Catch Me a Killer by Micki Pistorious. I am extremely riveted with such stories. Well, there’s something about those books which you don’t see every day, even in the world of melodramatic soap operas… These stories are wonderfully entertaining in their own sordid way.
I love the account of Pistorious but I have to say that it is not wonderfully written, as what I had expected it to be.  She has a dull way with words, unlike Ann Rule whom I deem to be the reigning queen in this genre, as far as I am concerned. One thing that I didn’t appreciate about Pistorious is that, she would sometimes shift from her own romantic story and then talk again about serial crimes, which I really find annoying. Well, I wasn’t interested about her love story; I want to delve on serial killers’ story. But still, on a larger scale, the book is worth reading. All of her stories were winnowed out from South Africa, which has the second highest number of serial killers in the world after the US. Now that’s something worth thinking about. She also offers a slightly simplified description at the end of the book on the development of a serial killer from a psychoanalytical point of view, but I don’t buy her theory. There are just so many loopholes on it , or it’s just so happened that I am not as Freudian as the author.
She has other books which seem equally intersting, like Fatal Females and Strangers on the Street. I hope I could hunt for these. But right now, I rather read my textbooks.
recently a friend gave me ‘the maltese falcon’ by dashiell hammett to read. it’s considered a classic, but still i was surprised how good it is. now i’m interested in seeing the movie version if i can find it.
I’m not much of a reader of classic books as I find those utterly boring. But I would certainly be tempted to check out a book which metamorphosed into a movie. I personally love “The Reader”. I haven’t seen the book itself but I guess it must be doubly impressive as its movie version.
I have read very few mystery novels but would definitely try this one.
This is Starvoyager by another name
. I loved reading Fredrick Forsyth and of course a staple of Agatha Cristie and the medical mysteries of Robin Cook.
P. S. its been a while, how have you been?