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An authorized tie-in to the popular TV show Criminal Minds Most episodes of Criminal Minds feature a briefing where the show's team of FBI profilers defines the type of criminal they're looking for and provides some real-life examples. This book tells the story of those examples. Published to coincide with the release of season five of Criminal Minds on DVD Organized by type of criminal, including solo serial killers, sexual predators, and killers with famous victims; and tells the stories of many famous murderers, including David Berkowitz, Jeffrey Dahmer, Mark David Chapman, and the Zodiac killer Features photographs from the show Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants is a fascinating, terrifying book about the criminal minds who live among us.… (more)
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It's a non-fiction book about the same kind of criminals and such that are seen on the TV Show of the same name. And the book also details in what episodes, and sometimes how many times
It's an interesting book, because although I have heard of a lot of the men (and a few men) that they talk about, there and there there's someone on the show I'll be like 'who'. Of course, they write the show so that you don't have to know all the horrible guys and what they did, but knowledge is good too.
On the other hand, it was a very disturbing book because none of these people's crimes/lives were sugar coated by the author, and that caused me to put it down more than once to give myself a break from the gruesome and horrible nature of the people from the title.
Finally it was an unevenly written book. In some cases the chapters flowed and between the chapters were seamless too, but there were also a lot of places where it was choppy and he jumped from story to story with what seemed like no plan, and it was jarring.
It was a solid three star book, just don't read it if you're squeamish in any way. It's hard core.