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I remember the crime quite well but had never heard the outcome of this case; also, I had no idea that she was in basically a Quiverfull family. Anyway, the audiobook was great, completely engaging throughout - a great read for a trip since it was so engaging.

The author seemed to be a little slanted towards the insanity defense but did a thorough job of describing the trials and the possibilities of motive and insanity. The author made quite a good case of describing post partum depression or, actually, just major depression, and showed how far we've come in diagnosing and understanding that depression can make people do unbelievable things, including despicable crimes. This book actually changed my thinking about the crime, especially as the author describes how overworked and brow-beaten she was... and I came away with a new and different view of the father. I guess that speaks to the quality of the book because I don't usually change my mind because of books... but the author presented a great book. Highly recommend if you remember this case.… (lisätietoja)
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marshapetry | 1 muu arvostelu | Dec 8, 2016 |
Terrible Terrible terrible. I am really pissed of and I have to give kudos to the author for being able to write such a bad book about a very interesting case.

Let me think. Yes I think this book has been on my wish list for quite some years. At least 5 or so but I could not afford it or I bought another book of my wish list.
Anyway. I have signed up for kindle unlimited and felt like I had won the bloody lottery. Everywhere I looked there were books I wanted to read. This was the first one I grabbed.

To make my story a bit shorter. I could not wait reading it and took a break from my other read just so I could finally begin Wasted.

Wasted it was. Waste of my time, not a waste of my money. I managed to read 8& of it but then returned the book.
Apparently the author gets money when the reader reads 10% of the book and I am sorry, I am normally quite goodhearted, but she did not deserve it. At least not for this book.

What a mess. It begins there is no explanation but there are lots of people of whom she sometimes calls them by their first name but one sentence later or so by their surname which makes it even more confusing.

That is not all. There is no fluidity at all. One moment she is speaking for character 1 but next sentence you are someone else.

Checking on amazon and reading the 5 stars reviews I really do not understand how someone can give this book 5 stars. Oh well taste differs.That is obvious with this book.
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Marlene-NL | Mar 12, 2016 |
Honestly, the most interesting thing about this book is the author. Her therapist "shames" and "guilts" her, her mother could barely explain what pregnancy was to her as a child, she can't even tell if she was molested or not and has zero comfort with her own body or anything regarding sexuality and is basically a 50-year-old virgin. She herself is on the fringes of American sexuality, and the contrast between her and the people she interviews is staggeringly fascinating. While the actual sex described - swinging, affairs, BDSM - wasn't anything that isn't found in most standard romance novels, watching someone discover what lies beyond their very vanilla view of the world makes this worth reading.

Edit: After reading the other review, I thought, "What shocking ending?" and went back and picked it up. I found nothing shocking about her trying to have kinky sex and not being able to go through with it without feeling pain.
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kristinides | 1 muu arvostelu | Sep 10, 2013 |
on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 I wrote:

I have read more then half but I have to say I am very disappointed.I do not like the way it was written.You do not get any reliable information. It is mostly hear say. I discovered this book was written in a hurry and finished before the trial was doneThat's why I have bought another book on the Yates case with much better reviews. Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea YatesI will wait till I receive that one, read it, then finish this book and then I will sell this one, because I need to earn some money.

Update September 2-2010: (guess I never sold it cause it is still on my shelf) ;)
and looking on another site even once I'd read all of it I was still not liking it.
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