- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (Mar 25 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0553225855
- ISBN-13: 978-0553225853
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #940,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A portrait of a tortured young man, arrested for a series of kidnappings and rapes, explores the world of a multiple personality, whose traumatic childhood shattered his mind into twenty-four distinct personalities. Reissue.
--This text refers to the
Mass Market Paperback
edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The most disturbing book I've ever read,
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This review is from: The Minds of Billy Milligan (Mass Market Paperback)
I worked at a hotel long ago, and I found "The Minds of Billy Milligan" in unclaimed properties. Parts of the book were very unsettling, but I couldn't put the book down. I almost felt guilty for intruding into the mind of a person so viciously abused that he became what he is.The book ends in the year 1981. Since then, Milligan has had a failed marriage and more legal problems. He is also reportedly unfused. A sequel to "The Minds of Billy Milligan" called "The Milligan Wars" was released, but only in Japan. Unless the film is produced and released here, according to the author, Daniel Keyes, the book probably won't be released here. A film of his life has been in the works for many years, and it appears to be an on again/off again project. Milligan himself helped Leonardo DiCaprio in preparing for the role in an adaptation called "The Crowded Room". Disturbing and engrossing. What else is the mind is capable of? If Billy Milligan and Sybil are any indication, the answer to that is truly frightening.
5.0 out of 5 stars
milligan,
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This review is from: The Minds of Billy Milligan (Mass Market Paperback)
this book was one of the only books ive ever finished in my life! And im 18. This book was so good. I couldnt put the book down. The Minds of Billy Milligan realy turned me on to reading. Ive read 2 books sence then and i only finished it 2 weeks ago. I wish that Milligan Wars would come out. I would be the first one at the door money in hand.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Reads like fantastic fiction, but isn't,
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This review is from: The Minds of Billy Milligan (Mass Market Paperback)
I first picked up this book because the author wrote "Flowers for Algernon." I figured it couldn't be bad. And I was right. This is one of the few books that I can actually call, "fascinating." Milligan, who was the victim of severe child abuse, shattered and became a multiple in order to deal with his unbearable emotional pain (multiples are actually very, very rare, contrary to what the media portrays today). What he went through is just astonishing. I can't recommend this book highly enough. Read it! You'll enjoy it, I promise.
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