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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
"True" Crime at it's worst,
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This review is from: Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer (Paperback)
Anyone that has picked up a newspaper in the last 10 years can see through the massive misinformation, and half truths in this book. Written almost immediately after Berkowitz's arrest this book does nothing but spout out the fabricated tale that Berkowitz told to keep the truth covered up. If you want to get a feel for the 'real' Son of Sam reign of terror pick up a copy of Maury Terry's Ultimate Evil.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Terrible .44-Calibre Killer Book,
By St Borkis (the Atlantic Ocean) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer (Paperback)
Bah! This is perhaps the worst book I have ever read in full. Written before David Berkowitz's trial, it is a cheap cash-in work that you must never read. I hope what I write here will make you sure of this.
For the first 240 pages you have an account of each crime, the letters received and a limited view of the police investigations. The shootings are detailed with the depth of a small town newspaper, only the basic facts are given. To great irritation each page is littered with author George Carpozi Jr's laughable remarks about how the police could've captured the killer here and there, or how this or that should have been done, or how this connection should have been made at this time, etc. The most amusing of these is where Carpozi says that the killer would have been identified sooner if the police had released their witness sketches quicker. It is widely aknowledged that the six sketches look absolutely nothing like Berkowitz or even like each other. Yet Carpozi, comparing the sketches to the captured Berkowitz, says, "Leonardo da Vinci would have been hard-pressed to come up with a more accurate likeness." Another point of annoyance are in Carpozi's repeated snide remarks about Jimmy Breslin. When it comes time for Carpozi to tell us about a letter Berkowitz sent to Breslin, a reporter at the New York Daily News (a rival paper of the New York Post, where Carpozi worked at the time), we are treated to ten or fifteen pages about why Breslin is "the last person in the world the .44-caliber killer should have written." In the pages that follow we are told of Breslin working for two papers that folded early in his carreer, of how he was a "guy who hadn't given [New York City] a minute of service in his whole life" when he made an unsuccessful run for Council President and so on. All of this seems based on a personal dislike of Breslin, but Carpozi goes on to justify it as a "forewarning" to those considering buying Breslin's own book on Berkowitz, which at the time he was reported as receiving either $150,000 or $350,000 to write. Jealousy may have been a greater motivation for this ridiculous chapter and the many other cracks that feature from here on. At the end of Carpozi's book we are shown another letter from Berkowitz to Breslin, this one after his capture. In his letter, Berkowitz seems to be agreeing to participate in a book about his life, this is in reply to a request from Breslin. It can be imagined that Carpozi himself wrote Berkowitz a similar request but did not receive the same positive reply. It is worth noting that while a Google search for Breslin returns various articles by and about him, and shows that he continues to work with notice (including a Pulitzer Prize), a search for Carpozi reveals only an obscure career. The first section ends with Berkowitz's capture. After this there is "Book Two: Son of Sam's Own Story," 50 pages detailing the life of Berkowitz, with numerous reports from childhood friends, neighbours and teachers, as well as the girlfriend he had in his mid-teens. During his time in the Army, Berkowitz frequently wrote home to her. The letters she kept and later sold. Many of them are re-printed here. This section of the book is readable and almost without Carpozi's irritating injections. What follows, "Book Three: After The Fact," a brief (30-page) detail of Berkowitz's confession and stay in hospital as he was being evaluated for trial, is similarly interesting. Near the center of the book there can be found 16 pages of black and white photos. None are of note. I cannot say enough bad things about this book. Reading it was often infuriating, similar to reading the worst of the tabloids. You will drop your head into the book many times because you wont be able to carry on. You must trust me and not pay the $9.95 and upwards the Amazon Marketplace store are currently asking.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
sssss-sssss-ssssonofsam!,
By "deadkenned-e" (Lost Angelless) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer (Paperback)
The best account of another brutal chapter in urban Amerikan history.Carpozi captures the nagging nausea of fear which tugged at the entrails of the residents who found themselves potential prey in a predator's hunting ground. A must-have for any true-crime voyeur's library of dementia!
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