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Title: Sympathy for a Monster
Review: I found this book to be horrifying in its concentration on feeling empathy for a man who killed his parents, his wife and his children. He robbed, cheated and lied his way through life and the author wants us to care about him? No attempt was made in this book to cause us to care about his victims. Even while he is in prison he cons his way but we are supposed to accept his behavior because he reads the bible and professes to love Jesus. I might have been able to enjoy the book if it were well written. I found the writing mundane and non-engrossing. If the author wanted to interest me in the main character he shoud have stayed with him instead of trying to make the author's connection with the conman a part of the story. I found no facts in the book that I had not already read in earlier newspaper accounts. If you must read it pick it up in a dustbin. I do not understand the praise it has received.
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