La narrativa es muy buena, se nos brindan fechas, lugares y descripciones necesarias para ponernos en contexto y entender la mentalidad de la época. Tal vez podría quejarme un poco de la mala costumbre del autor de repetir algunas frases cada ciertas páginas, pero la verdad es que esto no desluce en nada su forma de narrar y el tremendo trabajo de investigación que realizó para escribir esta obra. With his first forensic commitment to get behing the tabloid headlines Burn brilliantly reinvents reportorial writing ... Startlingly original.' - Matt Seaton, Esquire

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The author tries to understand and get in the mind of Fred and Rose West and succeeds to a great degree, so much so that it makes for terrifying reading and one cannot imagine what life must have been like for the children and passers through in Cromwell Street. The research to bring the tale to life is incredible Although it sets out to explore the lives of Fred and Rosemary West – along with Peter Sutcliffe, the most notorious figures in recent British criminal history – Happy like Murderers reads more like a novel than a documentary. In this respect, it recalls Truman Capote’s ‘novel of fact’, In Cold Blood, which made compelling fiction out of the brutal and senseless murder of an apparently typical American family in rural Kansas, and created a new genre on the way. ‘Brutal’ and ‘senseless’ are, of course, the terms customarily used to describe such crimes, part of the mechanism by which a society distances itself from the horror it discovers in its midst; the most common epithets for the perpetrators are ‘monster’ and ‘madman’. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-01-06 17:38:39 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA176101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City [London] DonorThe irony here is that the community, based on a system of exclusion and marginalisation, worked mainly in Fred West’s favour. The good people who were willing to shame a pregnant girl were also prepared to turn a blind eye to what happened behind closed doors, in a man’s own home. On more than one occasion, the police or the courts allowed West to walk away from his crimes, even though he made no real attempt to deny them. The Cromwell Street house was as unlike the remote Gothic mansions and Bates Motels of fantasy as it was possible to be: throughout the years Fred was torturing and murdering young women and children, a steady stream of visitors passed through the West household, from lodgers and acquaintances to police officers and social workers. Is it possible that nobody noticed that something was going on? Both the Wests were known to the police long before their crimes came to light. Their children had been identified as possible victims of abuse by schoolteachers and social workers, yet they were allowed to remain at home. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the community failed the Wests’ victims, allowing the Wests to use and dispose of them at their leisure. Muy decepcionada con este libro. El tema que trata me fascina y la historia empieza muy bien, pero a medida que avanza la información se va repitiendo una y otra vez (hay frases que se repiten literalmente varias veces). Además está escrito como a trompicones, apenas hay organización cronológica, de manera que es muy difícil seguir los acontecimientos, y no hay ningún tipo de estructuración temática; en definitiva, parece que ni el mismo autor sabe muy bien qué quiere contarnos ni cómo hacerlo, más allá de unos cuantos datos aleatorios. Creo, muy seriamente, que este libro en las manos equivocadas podría crear desgracias, pues a través de la muy detallada narrativa de los horrores de Cromwell Street lo lleva a uno a entender las entrañas del mal, a pensar como lo hicieron aquellos responsables de cosas horrorosas, a tener esas imágenes e ideas en la cabeza.

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Este libro es posiblemente el libro mas perverso que he leído en mi vida. Si existiera la biblioteca prohibida de Harry Potter este libro estaría ahí. Este libro me hizo entender a los censores. Es un libro que me hizo sentir sucia, monstruosa, y a la vez, decente, pues por mas que pueda tener esas ideas en la cabeza, (y de cierta forma es lo que el quería, enfrentarlo a uno con su monstruo interior) realizarlas me parecería una atrocidad. So what made this book so hard to get through? Although details of the murders are few, there is a lot known about life at 25 Cromwell Road, in the main from the recollections of three of the West's children. For this book, Burn extensively researched and interviewed family, friends and co-workers and has built up a detailed picture of The West's lives - not just the major events but their day-to-day routines over the years. And it is this emerging picture that is so upsetting to read. Durante casi todo el libro se siente un tono monocorde por parte del autor, como si decir "fui a comprar manzanas" sonara igual a "descuartice el cuerpo arrancandole las rodillas". Basicamete leer a Gordon Burn se asemeja a estar encerrado en un salon de clase donde la manera de explicar por parte del profesor es una enorme nube soporifera.

Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9746 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000291 Openlibrary_edition The surface, of course, is what community is all about. We go to great lengths to preserve appearances, not only for ourselves, but for others. At one point, Burn offers a meditation on the nature of social existence in West’s home town: Estás preparado a enfrentar una historia realmente perturbadora??? Pues si te gusta investigar sobre asesinos seriales y más sabiendo que esta historia es real, este libro es para tí. In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West’s relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative.

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-18 10:00:46 Boxid IA40113119 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Los West torturaron, secuestraron y asesinaron a una serie de mujeres por un período que ronda los 20 años. En 1994 la policía encontró enterrado en el jardín del matrimonio, el cuerpo de su hija Heather. urn:lcp:happylikemurdere0000burn:epub:7966c6c1-4ad3-45a2-ba8a-b3f4cb92be69 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier happylikemurdere0000burn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t46r31j6z Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780571265060 The story is OK, with a lot of details that help you understand how these people did what they did and how they did it for such a long time. But the way the author wrote it is very disorganized, he repeats a lot of facts which makes it boring sometimes, my feeling is that he accumulated so much information that he had trouble putting it all together. No hay dudas sobre la capacidad de investigacion de Gordon Burn, pero al momento de plasmar toda esa investigacion/conocimiento encuentro grandes fallas.