Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth

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What really bothered me about this trash though, was his arrogance. At one point, after discussing a young woman's gruesome death, he has the vulgar temerity to insert a quote from the victim's mother plugging one of his books on the subject. He also manages to berate female victims for not taking his advice, implying their stupidity was to blame for their murders.

A comprehensive and fact filled exploration let down by crass observations, casual judgmental tone and off colour humour. Talking with Psychopaths and Savages - a Journey Into the Evil Mind: A Chilling Study of the Most Cold-Blooded, Manipulative People on Planet Earth This is not an insight into the psychology of killers. This is a selection of case studies - most details of which can be found on Wikipedia - linked together with the author's self-agrandising narrative. Berry-Dee uses language best suited to a gutter tabloid to paint demonic pictures of serial murderers, without giving any understanding or insight into why they committed such dreadful crimes. Indeed, I feel I have learnt more about how Berry-Dee manipulates people, than I have about the mindset of the killers. The incarcerated appear to have reacted quite rationally in telling him to get lost, once they have got wind of his deceptions! The result is a chilling narrative that sets the forensic examination of killers and their crimes within the context of murder in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, an examination of the evil mind set against the insoluble problem of identifying psychopaths who kill. I'm laughing at the irony of this man condemning murderers as the "scum of the earth" (how factual) then salivating over killing people and them catching fire in electric chairs.Also there was a part where he literally copied a chapter from before, which he said in the book was to 'avoid being repetitive' but it was really repetitive and very lazy in my opinion. The way he treats the cases has nothing original or insightful, there is no Talking with Psychopaths, it just feels like he copy-pasted juicy bits from Wikipedia. Still, mister Berry-Dee is very happy to "get in the mind of the monster" (even for cases that are 80 years old and poorly documented), where nothing interesting happens, except for emptiness and cliché being followed by completely uncalled for, useless and extremely superficial simplistic moral judgment. Christoper Berry-Dee had some great insights and a lot of experience talking to killers, unfortunately, I don’t feel we got enough of his knowledge in this book. I would have loved to have heard more from his interviews with killers and less about killers that weren’t the subject of this particular book. There’s no interviews with any criminals in this book at all. All the author ever states about mass murderers or spree killers is who they are and how many people they killed. Also, I don’t need to know that much detail about the guns used? Like, it’s really boring to try and read through what velocity the bullets would fire at from a certain range? In Talking With Psychopaths and Savages, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive.

There is not one point at which you actually get to read ANY of his apparent MILLION interviews with murderers and serial killers. Lost count of how many times I read the sentence, “I’ve interviewed him twice before.” Where can I read that interview, if not in a book entitled TALKING WITH PSYCHOPATHS AND SAVAGES? A natural subject for the UK's bestselling true-crime author: a study of people who randomly kill large numbers of others (spree killers), or who set out to do so in specific places or situations (mass killers). Because of the ease of obtaining firearms in the USA, many of these, inevitably, are American, but there have been other recent examples in New Zealand and Norway, while three major mass shootings took place in the UK at Hungerford in 1987 (17 dead, including the killer), Dunblane in 1996 (18, including the killer), and in Cumbria in 2010 (13, including the killer). One of my issues with this book was that even though it featured lesser-known serial killers, it continued to quote and constantly find a way to bring other well-known serial killers into the story. This frustrated me as I wanted to know more about the killers in this book not the killers that I already knew so much about. Talking with Psychopaths and Savages seeks to understand the motivations for what makes a serial killer a killer. Yet, it was not quite what I expected.The fact that most of this book is just blaming gun laws in USA (I’m from England) makes the whole book feel like a it was just to piss off the Americans. The book had an interesting premise, was promising, and did have plenty of detailed content about a small number of murderers which fit a definition of 'psychopath', as well as several who didn't (and who were assigned the arbitrary term 'savage'). Well researched and peppered with interesting insights, it added a little more to my understanding of this specific type of criminal. Some of the things in this one were really quite disturbing and it was an eye opener to read about some of the bad guys that I hadn't come across before. Whenever we get into talking about (never 'to') a spree killer, the author mentions that he spoke to this killer or that killer, but we don't get a repeat of what was said. He just says 'see my other book, I won't repeat it here' or says 'plenty of books are written about this so I don't need to talk about it'. Oh and my favourite 'there's a YouTube video about this' (without saying what video or where to find it).

On to chapters titled with a killers name I finally think I am getting to the point of the book, yet the writing includes many other killers quotes and isn't solely about the killer who the chapter was named after. I am confused. I am waiting for his 'talks with the psychopath as the title of the book has promised me.Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth I was looking forward to reading this book, but I felt that it failed deliver on most fronts. Berry-Dee repeatedly states that he is not going to dwell overly on the salacious details of the crimes committed by the 'psychopaths' in question, while continually plugging his other books where he presumably does impart these tidbits. Instead, we are told that his focus is on psychopathy itself: looking at how psychopaths develop, whether they are born, and how one might recognise a psychopath in our own lives, etc. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2023-01-12 14:53:23 Boxid IA1820205 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Book Genre: Biography, Crime, Death, Education, Horror, Mystery, Nonfiction, Psychology, Science, True Crime