I enjoyed "Fight Club" very much. and I did enjoy most of "Choke."

But style can only take you so far without narrative strength. Choke ain't worth buying.

It's wonderful that this broad decided to work as a cop to lend her books authenticity, but I don't buy it.

This book won't really make you disappear, but it will help. Better than nothing.

Hey, I love Ed Gein as much as the next freak.....and I find this a pretty accurate depiction of "Cousin Ed's" career, if we can call it that.

Worth the price of admission. Does not blatantly contradict the facts.

Sorry, but I've had silly, violent, disgusting wanna-be girls stalk me. I wasn't stupid enough to encourage, or sleep with them, though.

Jim did. I'm glad he's out, though. I truly can't say that I'd respond differently given the chance.

Schechter focuses on the provable crimes, only hinting at the most sensational POSSIBILITES of his life. Schechter is a historian. He concentrates on the provable, not the possibly false and certainly sensational.

Well-written, well-researched review of an excellent early example of the 'organised' offender. Background detail helps with the profiling exercise.

The marketing was sensationalistic, but I assume that was the decision of the publisher...

Sorry, kiddies and students, but McGinniss really is a distasteful, publicity-grubbing worm. The more I look into this case, including personal interviews, the more I realize just how unethical McGinniss really was, and still is. The forensic case doesn't add up, and never, ever did.

By the way, anyone who would ever take a polygraph test under any circumstances is definitely a fool. BUT NOT NECESSARILY A MURDERER. I would never take one under any circumstance, no matter what.

Then again, unlike many who apparently get their information from Montel Williams and Maury Povich, I've actually done my research about the technology.

I have known in the past several of the people Mr. Ezekiel spent time on for his book, and despite his tireless (and increasingly annoying) left-wing babble, he paints a fairly accurate picture of the modern "racialism" movement as the unemployable, the troubled, the hopeless... the lost.

It's a great flick, if only because Rutger Hauer, King of the B-movies, gets to do to C. Thomas Howell what we have all dreamed of.....torture him mercilessly, for no adequately explained reason.

I guess Rutger saw "Soul Man."

Seriously, it's a well-done, if somewhat formulaic, version of the ol' deadly hitchhiker story. I endorse it wholeheartedly. Howell being the victim is just a bonus.

Honestly, whatta nut. Very good documentary about a very strange man from the North Woods. Of course, by now aficianados should expect that Schechter will get it right. And very stylishly so.

Apropos of nothing, my family originated pretty near that...and my father used to torment his mother (a very prim and proper lady) by asking for stories about "Cousin Ed." Needless to say, she found that about as amusing as Ed's woman suit.

Enjoy, campers!

BTW, the REALLY graphic pictures and wonderful line drawings can be found in the book written by the presiding judge at his trial, Judge Robert Gollmar. Hard to find, but well worth it.