sometimes i wish i could erase my mind

book: hunting humans

author: Elliott Leyton

completion date: 27/09/10

method: purchased

reading this book reminded me of reading helter skelter. I wanted to read that book so badly and i wished for it and asked for it for so long, and finally when i got it and when i read it i wished i hadn't. i really really want to forget a lot of what i read in that book, and its similar for this one. reading very graphic descriptions of what ted bundy or david berkowitz did to their victims.

this book was another book for school, and really works to combine the celebrity and the serial killer. leyton writes about the frenzy people feel around serial killers. especially how some of them exploit this frenzy. getting caught is another part of the rush. they killers get to relive every kill, every rape. it allows them to relive their heyday so to speak.

what i could have done without in this book is the graphic descriptions that leyton wrote. he was very graphic, almost totally overly. i did skip a number of pages... sometimes i got to the point when i just had to put down that book and pick up another, less horrible, novel. however, i kept reading. because just like everyone else (albeit not as intense as that woman that had ted bundy's baby) i have that sick fascination with serial killers. there is no way to know why this happens to people. or what will make a killer. this book was terrifying to me because of this reason. it doesn't have anything to do with having a shitty childhood or an abusive spouse. these things don't help, but many people recover from these abuses, or horrible traumas, so there is no reason why some people could recover and others decide to kill white, pretty college girls and leave them in a ditch.

hey. way to start a day.

xo-ellebee