She is a hateful murderer but I had sympathy for her. Five words: The Part About the Crimes. "The start of the book is incredibly hard to read. Snapshots Before the War: Saying Goodbye in 1944, Announcing the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Recipients, September's Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, Five Books, One Play, and One Film on the Meaning of Texas, September's Best Reviewed History and Politics Books, Five International Crime Novels You Should Read This September, Human Resources: How My Conspiracy Fiction Began to Bleed Into My Life, Carlos Castaneda: The Mysterious Life of a Guru in 1970s California. Another case of fantasized violence (well, maybe—the novel is …

That was the worst crime that happened in our area for quite a while. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). The victims were mostly couples. California residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data. Most people know the story of the Columbine High School massacre, the school shooting perpetrated by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in 1999.

Sigmund and the Sea Monsters?” Ugh. It recounts the individual murders of 112 women in Santa Teresa over the course of only a few years. The kid is violent, and so is the gang he joins, whose members are ostensibly collecting the scalps of Apaches, but are really happy to murder anyone and everyone they encounter, and so, of course, is the terrifying and hairless Judge Holden, the only character whose love for bloodshed is intensified by philosophical surety. All you get from the text is the set up, and then: “Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished; her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out.” The two men proceed to mock her before her uncle finds and rescues her. "Fascinating and also pretty disturbing in parts.".

That too.

We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. Very well written.". If I Did It, written after Simpson was found not guilty, includes apparently hypothetical descriptions of how O.J.

Reporting on what you care about. You could put several McCarthy novels on this list, but I think Blood Meridian is the best and certainly among the most brutal.

The way he builds the story to its crescendo and packs in the information about every person involved is incomparable. Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist? … But Titus Andronicus does feature tons of decapitations, deaths, and mutilations of various kinds, including what I’d rate as the most upsetting scene in all of Shakespeare—despite the fact that it happens off-stage—in which two of Tamora’s sons kill Lavinia’s fiancé, and then drag her off into the woods to rape and mutilate her, cutting off her hands and tying sticks to the stumps. This novel is famous for its opening line: “When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.” The book gets more and more violent—first in the usual ways of hardscrabble life, with an abusive father, with neighborhood fights, with a job at the slaughterhouse, but then in less usual ways.

Ted Bundy is one of the world's most infamous serial killers. I mean, do you know what it sounds like when someone has their Achilles tendons sliced in two?