Customer Reviews

Crime Talk

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3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(12)

 

 

I have to agree with other reviews about this book/CD. I'm not sure how convenence could even figure into the whole thing. Seems like a paperback would be a lot easier, you can fold the pages donwn to mark your spot, so what's the idea behind it? I didn't really care for reading interviews. It reminded me of having to read transcripts or acts in a play. I like books to be a little more enjoyable. If I want facts, there's always the newspaper or the history section at the public library.

I did not like the book at all. It was full of interviews, which are rather boring. It was full of repeated facts, which are also boring. I might say it was full of name dropping, too, just for effect. What could have been something of public interest turned out to be just rather boring!

An attempt at a reiteration of conversations? A take-off on 'He Said, She Said'? I found this about as interesting as I used to find books written in the first person. If I had known that I was going to have to wade through dry, brittle facts, and boring conversations, I'd have gone to a standard textbook library. If I still had the copy, I believe it would be up for sale again right here. Thank you very much.

First of all, I didn't care for the book. It was trite and dull. I could even add some of the other descriptive words from opinions I've read here. Now where the very few 'glorifying' ratings came from, it's not hard to figure out! Facts and boring repetitions do NOT a riveting book make! The best part of the book (actually the ONLY part I found) was the packaging of the product! The music and visuals kept the whole thing from being dead in the water!

Riveting isn't the word to describe the book. Boring, maybe. Unimaginative, possibly. Dry, to be sure.

Lackluster.......that says it all. Lacked imagination.

You have to be into the way cops talk to enjoy this book. It sounded like conversations were taped and transcribed verbatim, including little personal pet sayings that grew to be tiresome.

It was geared more towards stating names, dates, and facts. I really would've enjoyed fiction drawn from real life. You get so tired of hearing about the corruption and the over powering influence of the unscrupulous characters in today's society, as well as the one's that are well known from days gone past. I did not enjoy the back and forth sections of the questions and answers. Story form would have made a more reader friendly format.

have more life to them! WHO wants to read a word for word recount of conversations where, first of all, the questioner sounds smug to start with, and the person interviewed is pretty much giving the pat answer that is expected. Why wasn't the person ALLOWED to just tell his story HIS way? And WHY were old pieces that have already been out been put into one book? It seems that the book constitutes another "expert's" holier than thou point of view. Same old story, shove one point of view down anyone's throat when you're given the chance, huh?

This was a good book for busy people. I could read a chapter and return to it a week later and read another chapter. With the incidents that occurred on September 11th, this book adds something to the discussion on subjects such as espionage, racial profiling, race and justice and others. I loved the graphics and music on the CD Rom.