Monster

Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

By: Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry Dee

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster.

There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death-row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern. After escaping an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, she became a child prostitute, progressing into a disastrous adulthood of prostitution and damaging affairs with both men and women. Her eventual metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. This is her story, as told to Christopher Berry-Dee, editor of The New Criminologist and director of Britain's Criminology Research Centre.

©2004 John Blake Publishing (P)2014 Prospero Media

Monster

Very Short and missing details. Better books out there longer more detailed books. One is in paperback only! Best so far.

Narration ruins the story. Don't bother

If you are interested in the fascinating story of Aileen Wuornos, find another book. There are better ones out there. Monster is supposed to be Aileen Wuornos' account of the murders but it is mostly a reporting of the murders with her words injected in. This is no different from other the other books on the same subject. The problem with this book is that the male british narrator droned on, generating all of the enthusiasm in me that that my college statistics professor did. At the very least, having a woman speak the parts of Aileen would have made the book so much more "readable". I couldn't get through half of it.

Fascinating...

First person account of why and how the famous "Monster" prostitute went about killing several of her Johns. If ever an insane person was wrongly put to death, it was this one. She is not the run of the mill evil sociopath.

wow

Any additional comments?

i watched the movie first and was quite shocked to get a slightly different story straight from Eileen's mouth in this book. I wish they had spared her. well read, well written, a good buy.

Terrible

You absolutely should NOT have used a British narrator for Aileen Wuronos. Aileen was a transient, prostitute, working in Florida. She was from Michigan and was the epitome of "roughneck". This took so much away from the actual story. The narration was more distracting than anything.

horrible do not recommend

watch a documentary on Netflix or on TV and get the exact same as from this book the book was horribly written and most of the book came from The Killers words and interviews

Poor other of a factual story.

The other often leaves the reader unknowing who is speaking.
The other will sometimes present a full statement with many details and only at the end, tell who is speaking.
I found it confusing and oftentimes going back to figure out what's going on.
You would need extra patients to get the full view of this good otherwise good story.
Take heed before proceeding farther.