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Blut Will Reden: Eine Wahre Geschichte Von Mord Und Maskerade (2014)

by Walter Kirn(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

C. H. Beck

review 1: Thought it was better than most people did. Going in you know it is about Walter Kirn and "Clark Rockefeller," as told by Walter Kirn, so if you didn't think Walter would throw in his own stuff about himself, you must not understand a book like this. Of course there are probably more fulfilling books about the whole Rockefeller story, but this is very good about Walter's interaction. If you want a truly bad book about the writer taking over the "story" read Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan by Edmund Morris.
review 2: This isn't a typical true crime book. It doesn't go into great detail (or much detail at all) about Clark Rockefeller's many false identities (that being one of them), his cons, his crimes, etc. This book isn't about that sort of thing. This book, ... morerather, is about the relationship between the author (Kirn) and Clark. That is its sole focus.To me this book is fascinating. The point is this. It is the author's extended rumination regarding how he could have been duped by Clark for more than ten years. How it was possible that the author, an educated, intelligent, non-naive fellow, could have been fooled by a continuing line of blarney that, in retrospect, seems absolutely preposterous. Preposterous in retrospect even, and perhaps especially, to the author. And to this day, the author still hasn't quite figured that out. After reading the book, I still have no idea. (Perhaps because I've never cared the tiniest bit for power, riches, and/or fame, I can't understand why someone would be so drawn to anyone like Clark, no matter what his last name.) No answers are given. The situation still doesn't make sense. And yet the story is still highly readable and interesting.The book is very well written. It is quite brief. Kirn chooses to relay snippets of interaction, fairly terse, that convey volumes more than the paper space they inhabit. Writing students should read this book, to see how to relay more with less, with both skill and clarity. Very nice indeed. less

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