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This is one of those books that I hated to love, over 600 pages Dan Davies delves deeply into Jimmy Savile and his long list of crimes. In hindsight it's easy to say that he was creepy and disturbing but it's true, I didn't enjoy watching him on the TV and used to turn off Top of the Pops when he was on.

Even before his crimes were uncovered, Jimmy Savile polarised people he was like marmite you either loved him or hated him. I'm in the hated camp.

The books is full of details and the author swings between his interviews with Savile and talking about the operation to discover his crimes. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the subject.

martinal's review against another edition

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dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

xoannalise's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

mike_brough's review

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4.0

Over 600 pages, Davies builds a convincing portrait of a monster. Davies' ability to describe (non-graphically) Savile's sick acts while also showing why he was so 'loved' by the vast majority of the UK populace over 50 years of his showbusiness/celebrity career is impressive.

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challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

Interesting book but difficult to follow in a few places in terms of sentence structure and words being missed out. Would have given it a 5/5 otherwise.

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admiralette's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

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dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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