Customer Reviews

Mindhunter

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This book offered a unique opportunity to see a number of personally important and particularly illustrative cases through John Douglas's eyes. Unfortunately, it seems difficult for Douglas to leave behind his bias and write for the reader rather than himself. There are some sections of the book that drag on far longer than they need to and while I appreciate their importance to him as a reader I'm simply not as invested as he is.

He's also very clear and up front about his own philosophy of crime, its causes, and its related ethics. I often found myself disagreeing with him but he presents this material in way that's well reasoned, well argued, and only approaches abrasive without actually crossing the line. I appreciated his restraint and as a result can respect his opinions even if I don't agree with them.

Overall I think this was one of the more informative books to come out of the Investigative Support Unit, though it wasn't one of the more cohesive and poetic works.

Kindle edition: This book isn't in Topaz format but there's a strange glitch that makes the text appear one size larger than the actual setting. It's well formatted otherwise but do be aware that you'll likely need to bump the text size down a notch.

This book is excellent. Being a criminal justice major and self-proclaimed buff, I can say that reading this has given me insight and further interested me in behavioral analysis. Douglas has a way of keeping the reader interested without using big, hard to understand words. He grabs you from the beginning with his own personal history and humble start into the field. He is genius and I thoroughly enjoyed this read....couldn't put it down!

This is one of my favorite authors of true crime. He has a certain flair for combining total facts with creative writing to make the true stories interesing, factual but not boring at all.

It's amazing how the profiling works out, but as proven in this book, it does. You won't want to put this book down.

Book came in condition as expected. Would buy from again. Happy to have this amazing book in my collection again.

I had the luck of having dinner with Mr. Douglas while he was filming an animal cruelty documentary. He was fascinating and extremely knowledgeable about his trade. I am not surprised that he wrote this page turner.