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Originally Posted by pendragginp
I've done this, but only with true crime books. I did it with Helter-Skelter, and with the Ted Bundy book Conversations With A Killer. Only read them early in the day and with someone else in the house. Shiver.
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True crime books don't affect me nearly as much as fiction. In true crime I've read the crime details generally seem to be presented with enough clinical detachment that I as a reader can also be detached. But a fiction writer can be more gruesome and evocative.