The Stranger Beside Me....made me call ADT to have an alarm installed!

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	• The Stranger Beside Me (Revised and Updated): 20th Anniversary Ann Rule Signet, 2001 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 171 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

the stranger next dooe

Ann Rule is my among my favorite writers, I read everything she has out there, her book on Bundy was chilling and one of the best on the subject

Wanted More

I think Ann Rule is a decent writer, but I found the story of Ted Bundy to be a bit boring. I don't need all of the lurid details, but a little more time talking about the murders might have pulled me more into the sick world of Bundy. Ann gives tons of details about just about everything else connected to the Bundy cases, but not enough about the crimes. She almost seems like a mother protecting her son when she talks about Ted. She seems to refuse to get into his twisted mind. You really can't get a better book about Bundy than this one, and Ann has knowledge of Ted that no one else can ever have. Still I didn't find it as engrossing as most of the reviews.

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Informative

I've read a few of Ann's books and really appreciated this one. She outlined the story of Ted Bundy well. She also related experiences she had with him on a personal level. Very interesting and educational about the story of the monster who was Ted Bundy.

One of my all-time favorite books

I have been fascinated and terrified by the Ted Bundy murders since I was a little girl. He was a bit of an iconic anti-hero in my hometown of Seattle. When I was a teenager, I picked up this book for the first time, and over the years I've read it over and over again. My first copy became so dog-eared I passed it onto a friend, who bought me the updated version. Ann Rule is one of my favorite authors. I was always an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, but I have been so accustomed to her writing style, I scarcely want to read anything else anymore. I'd recommend this book to anyone, whether they enjoy true crime or not, whether or not they're familiar with the Bundy case.

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The Stranger Beside Me....made me call ADT to have an alarm installed!

So I am a bit of an alarmist, but honestly, Ann Rule's account of her friendship with Ted Bundy is riveting. Perhaps that word is overused, but it is entirely accurate to describe this story. Even if true crime is not your first literally passion, give this book a chance. Rule is magnificent.

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Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell

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