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harvio's review against another edition
3.0
- from the jacket: "The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the years most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex-slaves (the most-requested and widely-read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the co-author of Freakonomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable 'Ode To Bar Fights' written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party.."
blevins's review against another edition
3.0
Like a lot of these anthologies, some essays better than others. A few I'd already read in the New Yorker, but if you like short bursts of true-life crime in your reading diet, these are fun and easy.
harvio's review
3.0
- from the jacket: "The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the years most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex-slaves (the most-requested and widely-read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen J. Dubner (the co-author of Freakonomics) about a high-society silver thief, and an extraordinarily memorable 'Ode To Bar Fights' written by Jonathan Miles for Men's Journal after he punched an editor at a staff party.."
raehink's review
2.0
I enjoyed the first half of this book and then it went downhill. The articles just didn't hold my interest.
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