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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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.

Christopher Berry dee has not talked to any of the people featured in this book. The people he has spoken to are in his other books. Which he mentions a lot. Like loads Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quântica Because this is such a short and uninteresting book my review is going to be just that, short.. hopefully it's still interesting to you though. This book is laced with an arrogant tone throughout which honestly makes me more uncomfortable than the actual descriptions of the crimes committed. The author brags about his interactions with serial killers and other criminal psychologists, putting himself on a pedestal while expressing a condescending to the readers and those who may wish to get into his line of work. You would think that with his arrogant tone and bragging he at least knows what he is talking about and writes it in a clear and concise manner. That is not the case. He goes off on tangents which lead to nothing and actually take away from the case. He inserts his own opinions which would be fine if they weren't so pretentious. The writing is inconsistent and has a number of errors in spelling and grammar which makes you wonder if anyone actually read over this before publishing.that you have any inquiry or need to eliminate any substance recorded here if it's not too much trouble, go 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 by Christopher Berry-Dee is the first in this series and it's interesting to see the way one has to try and get into the mind of evil, it's not so much the killers crimes we see it's the relationship the criminologist has to make to gain some kind of trust for the killer to open up.PDF / EPUB File Name: Talking_with_psychopaths_and_savages_-_Christopher_Berry-Dee.pdf, Talking_with_psychopaths_and_savages_-_Christopher_Berry-Dee.epub There is also an issue with the purpose of this book. It would be remiss to deride a person for believing “Talking with Psychopaths and Savages” contained conversations with psychopaths. Yet, it doesn’t. The title and blurb allude to interviews with some of the world’s most evil people, however, the contents is a mere sprinkling of quotes gathered by the author. The real content is an account of the lives of a handful of killers and their crimes. There is no scientific examination into the true working of such deprived minds or any hypothesis as to their abnormality. 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. In the introduction it is implied that this book is about serial killers he has interviewed but most serial killers included he hasn't met (the only one he has actually interviewed is the last one and he barely references his material for that). In each of cases he inserts other serial killers and various quotes from different interviews that have no relevance to the current case. it comes across as just name dropping different criminals - like oh look at me I interviewed this criminal ha ha I'm so good at everything.

Having interviewed over thirty of these twisted murderers, whose homicidal craft and skills strangulation; suffocation; knifing; bludgeoning their prey to death; setting victims on fire alive; shooting; injecting with caustic agents and just about every other tortuous means of extinguishing life known to deviant man, I go further than ever before in this book by inviting you to the Gates of Hell. So this book is not for the squeamish. It will not make for a comfortable bedtime read because it is solely intended to put you inside the heads of those killers who thrive on pure evil' - from the author's introduction. 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? I don't care about your opinion, Chris. I'm not reading a true crime story to hear your politics. It was clearly insane of me to expect actual interviews with serial killers from a book which says "interviews with serial killers" on the front. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, as I've said if you want to know anything about a serial killer then just Google it, you'll probably find more from the internet than you will in this book and you really don't want to spending time with this author, which is basically all you do while reading it. 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 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?

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). 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. 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. 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. One of the main things which I found really annoying, is how the author constantly refers to previous books he has written. I get he is trying to tell the reader that if you found this interesting, you might want to read my other book where I mentioned it too but it comes across as repetitive self promotion.

Talking With Psychopaths And Savage's Beyond Evil by Christopher Berry-Dee is book 2 in this series and it's definitely darker than the first but it also came across that the author wasn't bothered this time with placing little snippets of his real opinion as well as his professional opinion thought out about these evil people he has interviewed in his working years as a criminologist. In this book he focuses specifically on the phenomenon of mass murders and spree killers. CBD delves deep into American gun culture, school shootings, historical shootings, UK based massacres such as Hungerford and Dunblane before concluding with some thoughts on the "incel phenomenon". This is not a book for the squeamish, but it is undeniably fascinating in its portrayal of just what one human being will do to others - while all too often moving among us unnoticed and unhindered. If their crimes seem as incomprehensible as they are horrific, it is undeniably true that the world's most savage killers may be much closer than we think . . . This book was very poorly put together, whilst others in the series focused on a particular killer, their psyche and interview (which was what made them interesting!), this failed on all of those fronts. It read like a patchwork of notes that someone strung together, with no real depth of research, which meant there was very little of interest for readers to cling onto.