A review by fairbanks142
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
3.5
Harold Schecther always does an amazing job in his profiles of the depravity of humanity. His biography of Ed Gein ("Deviant") was the first of his book I read several years ago, and I am still emotionally affected by the care and even sympathetic understanding he took to convey the tragic conditions which shaped the man.
With "Deranged", I did not get that same approach to the subject. Not that this is a horrible read, it is quite good, but it is more examination of his crimes and apprehension than the circumstances which may or may not have shaped him to be the monster Albert Fish was.
With "Deranged", I did not get that same approach to the subject. Not that this is a horrible read, it is quite good, but it is more examination of his crimes and apprehension than the circumstances which may or may not have shaped him to be the monster Albert Fish was.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Child death