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mnboyer's review against another edition
5.0
Yikes. Carl Panzram is a truly terrible serial rapist and murderer.
This shorter true crime book discusses his crimes, giving an overview of his upbringing as a child--alluding that his own harsh treatment at the hands of others only furthered his hatred and rage--and listing out a timeline of events. While a quick read, it is still a fascinating one that really makes you wonder about people and the horrors they can commit against others.
I would definitely read more by this author and would also thoroughly enjoy reading more about the terrible human that is Carl Panzram.
This shorter true crime book discusses his crimes, giving an overview of his upbringing as a child--alluding that his own harsh treatment at the hands of others only furthered his hatred and rage--and listing out a timeline of events. While a quick read, it is still a fascinating one that really makes you wonder about people and the horrors they can commit against others.
I would definitely read more by this author and would also thoroughly enjoy reading more about the terrible human that is Carl Panzram.
wolfshine's review against another edition
5.0
Carl Panzram was a real example of what happens when someone loses faith in all humanity. And it’s terrifying.
He didn’t have an easy life. As a child, he pretty much suffered through every atrocity that a person could. He was humiliated and hurt at every turn. Despite it, Carl did what he could to try and survive. As life continued to kick him down though, he gave up more and more on caring about those around him. After being kicked out of the military, he let his dark desires take hold of him. Eventually he became a monster who robbed, raped, and killed as much as he wanted.
His life motto: “I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. My motto is, Rob em all, Rape em all and Kill em all.”
Narration was spot on.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
He didn’t have an easy life. As a child, he pretty much suffered through every atrocity that a person could. He was humiliated and hurt at every turn. Despite it, Carl did what he could to try and survive. As life continued to kick him down though, he gave up more and more on caring about those around him. After being kicked out of the military, he let his dark desires take hold of him. Eventually he became a monster who robbed, raped, and killed as much as he wanted.
His life motto: “I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill 'em. My motto is, Rob em all, Rape em all and Kill em all.”
Narration was spot on.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
nothingamonth's review against another edition
4.0
Very good book, odd choice of words
I was a little put off by the language used in Green's true crime rendering of Carl Panzram. This is the third of Ryan Green's books that I've read, the first about a male perpetrator, and by far my favorite. Everything about Panzram was awful, brutish, and violent, but I find it curious that Green often uses the word "f---" in reference to Panzram's sexual crimes. If I hadn't read two of Green's other books about female murderers, I doubt I would have noticed. But when he writes that one woman here "took a lover" but Panzram "f---ed" his victims, it strikes me as a weird sort of bias.
I was a little put off by the language used in Green's true crime rendering of Carl Panzram. This is the third of Ryan Green's books that I've read, the first about a male perpetrator, and by far my favorite. Everything about Panzram was awful, brutish, and violent, but I find it curious that Green often uses the word "f---" in reference to Panzram's sexual crimes. If I hadn't read two of Green's other books about female murderers, I doubt I would have noticed. But when he writes that one woman here "took a lover" but Panzram "f---ed" his victims, it strikes me as a weird sort of bias.
clane's review against another edition
4.0
Incredibly terrible and upsetting book but well written and researched. Worth the read for true crime knowledge.
skyfox24kd's review
3.0
He truly was the saddest, most evil person that I have ever heard about....
I also think that he was made. It is possible he could have turned out completely different had his early childhood and adolescence gone a different way. Truly disturbing true crime.
I also think that he was made. It is possible he could have turned out completely different had his early childhood and adolescence gone a different way. Truly disturbing true crime.
colleendoubleday's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Torture, Rape, Violence, and Sexual assault
courtlane's review against another edition
4.0
Incredibly terrible and upsetting book but well written and researched. Worth the read for true crime knowledge.