- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton; 1 edition (Sep 28 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393050297
- ISBN-13: 978-0393050295
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 839 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
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- #94 in Books > Nonfiction > True Accounts > Serial Killers
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Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell
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Rule met Bundy at a local crisis counseling center. Sharing long nights helping those who felt that suicide was the only option, they developed a friendship. She believed that she knew the handsome psychology major about to attend law school; however, she only knew a part of the man. Bundy was also a cold-blooded serial killer. This story follows Rule as she at first denies that the Bundy she knew could have committed these murders, and then the realization that he was ruthless, dangerous, and evil. Lorelei King is a phenomenal reader; her vocal characterizations never seem forced and fit seamlessly into the narration. Listeners will be spellbound and anxiously awaiting the next twist, when they are not double-locking their windows and doors. A wonderful tape that will find a home in all true crime collections. One warning: some of the descriptions of the crime scenes and murder victims are a bit graphic and may want to be avoided by those with delicate constitutions. Danna Bell-Russel, Library of Congress
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Intense!,
By Emily (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stranger Beside Me (Mass Market Paperback)
This books make me rethink everything. The way the author describes her seemingly normal relationship with Ted Bundy, how she thought he was innocent at first, how they went out to dinners together while he was going through his court trials, and how she had no clue that he was a serial killer, it's all so intense. Ted Bundy is fascinating in that he never left a clue, and he seemed SO exceedingly normal. This is a truly chilling and in depth look into one of the most interesting serial killers. A definate must have!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it,
This review is from: The Stranger Beside Me (Mass Market Paperback)
Scary. Descriptive. Detailed. Loved the fact that she had a personal relationship with Ted Bundy, it just made the book and his character all more real.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
This is About Ted Right?,
By S. L. Leuchs "stacemay1" (Glendale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stranger Beside Me (Hardcover)
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Stranger Beside Me." However, before I began reading, I was expecting something totally different. I was expecting a story of about someone and their crimes, etc. - what a normal true crime story usually goes through. What I wasn't expecting was the inner torment of the author on whether or not she should believe her friend.I can understand that Ann Rule was friends with Ted Bundy and that caused torment for as she hunted for the "Ted" murderer and wrote her book, but this book about SOMEONE ELSE was written in the first person - and not from Ted's point of view. It's all about her thoughts and feelings as things are happening in the Ted case and what she's going through. The book was insightful because she actually knew Ted as a person - sociopath that he was. She felt that she could trust him and share with him. I do understand that would put anyone in an uncomfortable position when you find out someone is a serial killer and, yes, it should be mentioned in said book about this serial killer you are writing about. However, it should not be the basis of the entire book. Read it for the information on Ted, but try to ignore the fact that the book is more about Rule than him.
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