It’s been ten days since I put this book down. I haven’t really figured out what to say about The Invention of Murder, since it wasn’t really what I was looking for as far as research and was a bit too slow for a pleasure read, but it deserves to be reviewed, and I really wanted to make 60 reviews. So here we are. This is an interesting study of how the 19th century laid the groundwork for our own ‘ripped from the headlines’ world. […]
Natural Born Killers was over a hundred years late.
Oh man, did i think I was going to enjoy this book. True crime and history, two of my loves, how could it have gone so wrong? Oh, by giving too much of the wrong sort of detail, I see. It’s far from the worst thing I’ve ever read, but it certainly wasn’t very engaging.