Slow Death: The Sickest Serial by James Fielder Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Slow Death: The Sickest Serial
Book Review: White Trash American Ken & Barbie!
Summary: 3 Stars
Let's face it! This book is not intended for people who get easily squeamish. Cyndy Hendry and David Ray were made for each other because they committed some of the most heinous crimes against women with no conscience to spare between them. Hendry was a true crimes reader but so am I and I don't have any desire to get mixed up with the likes of David Ray. The fact that book is decently written by a new author like James Fielder shows his effort in deterring possible squeamish readers off. If you don't mind reading books about the Homolka-Bernard case, this book is for you. Although Cindy and Ray are nothing like the Canadian couple who were nicknamed Ken and Barbie. Cindy and Ray are considered to be white trash and on the wrong side of the tracks. The author explains how a woman like Cindy came to be from a rotten upbringing in Washington where she was kicked out of the house. Her own children don't seem to care for her. Cindy is only looking after herself and sold Ray down the Rio Grande faster than I could write this review. Ray was just inhuman in his behavior toward everybody particularly women. It's no wonder that his daughter dresses in masculine clothes or gives the impression that she is still trying to please daddy and believe in his innocence. The fact that an FBI agent committed suicide after seeing the horrors of the toyroom with the coffin, the female examining table, the chains, the handcuffs, the dildos hanging around, the cameras, etc. is enough to make even the most tough guy vomit his guts out. The crimes that David Ray were far worse than most murders. Maybe because he took joy in watching women in excruciating pain and revelled in it as well. What caused a human being to revel in watching women, beg, plead, and agonize for days to live? I don't know and I don't think Ray even knew of his inhumanity but this book gives us a detailed description and insider's look as to what was happening in the sick, disturbed world of David and Cindy. Not that I want to go there or visit there at all. Their world was one sick hell of an existence.Book Review: it could use some more detail...
Summary: 4 Stars
but, the details that were shared in this book were damaging enough. this book gives u just a taste of the deviants this man && his friends actually were, w/o permanantly scarring u for life. i've yet to finish this book because of the torture he put these women through, but i still say it's worth the read. if u thought dahmer was evil, u have no idea. the writing is decent. the quotes @ the beginning of each chapter were impressive. this book was given to me by my mother, so i can't comment on if it was worth my money. but, if i had to, my personal opinion would be to buy it used, just in case u're too sensitive to make it all the way to the end.Book Review: lacking
Summary: 1 Stars
in the book they have the fbi claiming this creep David Parker Ray killed anywhere from 60 to 90 people...and it's probably true...but where is the full story? you won't find it here. frustrating and tiresome. a confederacy of halfwits. the woman who helped DA Yontz in the second trial appears so be fairly sharp, so does the second judge--but the rest? not too bright. i mean even the serial killer actually appears to be a better writer than the guy who wrote this book. i'd like to see the whole/complete horror tale written by someone better suited than this particular writer.Book Review: not very effective
Summary: 1 Stars
Not well done at all. The writer jumps around needlessly, therefore destroying any suspense in the telling. Also too many halfwits in this tale, and that includes the attorneys--it's because of the prosecutor that the first trial ended in a hung jury, mistrial. Hate to say this, but about the only individual with any intelligence at all appears to be the twisted sicko named David Parker Ray.
yes, there is definitely a powerful, gut churning story here and ought to be told/written by someone who knows how to do it.
About 15, 20 percent of this is worth reading--as far as the rest? A waste of time. Exchanges beyween DA Yontz and teen reporter Frances Baird are tiresome and go nowhere, never add to the story or keep moving it along at all.
We also feel that the whole story was not told here; too much was left out, pieces missing. someone needs to tell this story from the very beginning of Rays' childhood, and track down all the people who knew him, etc.and keep the story moving in chronological order. As it stands, this book is a frustrating mess. Fielder hops around too much. This writer should go back and re-read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood to see how it's done. Slow Death is one of the dullest true crime books I have ever read.
Book Review: very disturbing!!!!
Summary: 3 Stars
The thing is that is really sucks that this is a true story. Women get kidnapped and sexually tortured, raped and sodmized by this sick man who lives in the desert.
The details are graphic and it made me sick to my stomach ot read, it affects women obviously more than men. But if you are into reading true crime novels, it's very descriptive and the writer did a well job..