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De Kelderkinderen: Het Gruwelijke Verhaal Achter De Zaak Fritzl (2000)

by John Glatt(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

9049900828 (ISBN13: 9789049900823)

languge

English

genre

Horror

review 1: I had no idea what I was getting into when I started this book. I didn’t hear about it, I’ve never even heard any of the news reports of this disturbing story. I was pleasantly grabbed by this book. I couldn’t put it down. The mystery of what truly went on in Josef Fritzl’s mind is still reeling through my mind. To be a mother, and to have a family makes you fall into this story so deeply you begin to imagine Rosemarie’s feelings, Elizabeth’s fears, the children’s futures. There were moments in this book that I was disgusted with how a man could do such monstrous things to his own family. And then, there were moments that I felt elated that Elizabeth kept her head up for her children’s sake. You start to think, “what would I have done…” in thi... mores story. Going to each and every page made me think more and more. It makes me wonder about my own neighbors. (I am already a curious person, this book just brought that out even more! Ha!) There is also a sadness I feel for Josef. I know, I’m crazy for that! To think of what possibly went on with his own family as a child gives you an understanding as to how to turned into the monster he did. Not that it is excusable in any manner, just an understanding. I have suggested this book to quite a few people already.
review 2: The Fritzl case was world wide news, exposing one of the most hanous crimes of captivity and abuse imaginable. Secrets in the Cellar tells the story the public have heard before.However it gives details into some other interesting insights of the story that schocked the world. It tells of Josef Fritzl's childhood in Nazi dominated Austria, with an absent father and dominating abusive mother whom he admitted to having sexual urges toward. (Discusting I know).It tells of how Fritzl, a self proclaimed genious, spent 6 years constructing the below basement cellar and how he lured down Elisabeth, his 4th daughter in a 7 child family.It also provides details of the brothels he visited and the sadistic sexual acts he subjected to sex workers in order to acheive gratification. So vile these sexual fantasies that many sex workers started to refuse him service.It also acounts how he managed to tell the story of Elisabeth's dissapearance into a supposed religious cult for so long, A story enough to satisfy authorites and the community - and even making Elisabeth out to be a childhood terror, and selfish and irrisponsible mother - having supposedly 'left' 3 of her children on the Fritzl's front step. Some details are also given about the lives of both the cellar and 'upstairs' children and Josef fritzls interactions with them all.I would like one day to read a personal account of Elisabeth's story, that said I don't think she will ever publish an account given her obvious trauma. Should one day she tell her story (or one of the cellar children tell their story) I believe it would be a hard story to take.The one complaint I have about this book is it tends to literly reapeat itself again and again. less

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