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Originally Posted by Catlady
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.
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Well, the interviews with Bundy where he talks about details (though always in the third person so he could deny he meant himself - he was just helping to figure out possible scenarios, doncha know) were pretty gruesome.
And for me, the fact that it
wasn't fiction, that he had really done these things to these poor girls was awful.
I've read a lot of true crime, but usually a single murder or two. Except for Bundy I avoid serial killer books, or I skip a lot of the details. What I'm usually interested in is how they were caught, so the investigation. And the trial.