Review: Appears to be a cut-and-paste job
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2012
I'm shocked that the book UNSOLVED SERIAL KILLINGS has sold so well.Most of the information seems to be cut-and-pasted from public sources like Wikipedia and other true crime sites. Furthermore, the book is overflowing with poor writing when attempts are made to bridge one cut-and-pasted bit of content to the next.I've seen Freshman Composition papers that were better-written.And the cut-and-paste tactics are made all the more obvious by the fact that some of the sources the author is cutting-and-pasting content from are using highly dated terminology. (For example, in the first few pages, one "list" refers to "colored people," a highly dated term that offends, while a few pages later, another section refers to "blacks."I enjoy true crime books; Ann Rule is one of the better authors in the genre, and Beth Bednar had a good one out recently.But don't mistake R.J. Parker for a real true-crime author. This is the sort of content Amazon is supposed to be flushing from its system very soon, and I hope that happens in this case.