This is a book from my guilty pleasure genre: true crime. It was a random pick from my work library (as it usually is). While there are many things unique to the case of Eric Napoletano, I’m not sure it’s the most interesting True Crime I’ve ever read. Napoletano had a close relationship with his mother, Carolyn. By close, I mean strangely close. Eric and Carolyn spoke several times a day and argued like brother and sister. When Eric was only 11, he met a […]
You probably don’t want to read this.
One of the internet’s favorite catch phrases would have made a great title for this, but I couldn’t bring myself to use it. I’ve been a longtime fan of true crime, but this book was hard for me to read. I’m giving it 3 stars, because it’s well executed, but it’s not enjoyable and neither is my review.
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.
Who killed Kurt Cobain?????
Since I am essentially close to being an old person (30th birthday next month!), I decided to revisit my youth with my first book in the Cannonball Read, Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain written by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin. As you can probably tell from the title, this book is about a well-known theory that Courtney Love of the band Hole had some degree of involvement in the death of her husband, Kurt Cobain of the epic grunge band Nirvana. The […]