Hi, guys. I'm Beth. This is read remark. Today we are going to talk about true
crime books, particularly I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.
I'll Be Gone in the Dark is a book, in my opinion, that is as much about the author as it
is about its subject matter. She follows a man who's been dubbed the east area
rapist, or ear for short. She has called him the golden state killer. Over a
series of many many years throughout the state of California, starting I believe
in the 1960s or 1970s, he has left a long line of rapes and murders. Horrific.
The the detail that she describes here is just so disturbing
that you can't even really make that stuff up for books. If you put it into a
book then critics like me would probably
...not critics but *reviewers* like me...
would probably say that it's a little it's a little bit extra. A little bit too far.
Not quite realistic. But when she describes this stuff actually happening
in real life it makes me so tense, thinking about what these poor
people went through.
So, Michelle McNamara, the author of this book, she is part of a
community of true crime aficionados, and really that's not quite the right
word to describe them. I would say maybe they're just more like true crime
followers. And so wherever the official detectives the police working on these
cases either come up short or hit brick walls that they just can't seem to move
past, this group of true crime followers will just keep at it, keep at
it, keep at it and sometimes they'll find clues or have ideas that really make a
break in the case. She followed this case really to her own peril. She was so
engrossed in it, lost sleep over it, you know really
pouring herself into it. She passed away pretty famously. Her husband was Patton
Oswalt and he had the dedication to see this book through and get it published.
The case was broken, really I would say thanks to her.
Of course, the hard-working detectives and all the people involved in the case
really got it done, but she was the engine that kept driving it, kept pushing it.
Even when a horrific case is solved, it doesn't really undo all the horrors
that came before it, including the author's own death. So, really good
book tinged with sadness throughout, including at the very end. Now I'm gonna
go ahead and recommend three more true crime novels, if you are so inclined, that
you may enjoy. The first one is American Fire by Monica Hesse. This was a really
interesting book, not necessarily because it was bloody. In fact, this was a
crime in which there were no fatalities. It involved a couple who set a series
of dozens and dozens and dozens of fires over a several month span.
It's a kind of fascinating to look at the psychology behind it, to look at what was
going on in their lives to make them want to do that, to look at how many
resources at ate up and how it really kind of made this series of small towns
all up and down the counties feeling really ill at ease because you never
knew what was gonna go up in flames next, including historical buildings. The next
book I'm going to recommend is Missoula by Jon Krakauer. In fact, I would
recommend you read pretty much anything by Jon Krakauer. But Missoula in
particular was pretty eye-opening for me because it looked at the the college
campus in Missoula and the series of rapes that happened there. Now, what was
eye-opening for me was the definition of rape. It's not necessarily about having
to say no. Instead, it's more about not being able to say yes. A lot of these
rapes that happened were to women who were passed out drunk or women who were
asleep or in some other way incapacitated and never had the
opportunity to consent in the first place. So, being able to wrap my head
around defining that as rape was really eye-opening for me. And then it's also
depressingly eye-opening to see the prevalence of rape and just
how much of it there is. And I can tell you that I had some conversations with
my boys afterwards just to make sure they understood exactly what consent was
and, you know, to not rape.
Another book that I'm gonna recommend is Devil
in the White City by Eric Larsen. In fact, I think pretty much everyone recommends
this book because it's just that good. It simultaneously follows the Chicago
World's Fair, the preparations for that, and the serial killer HH Holmes.
H.H. Holmes was another one of those cases that you just can't make this stuff up.
If you tried to, people would accuse you of being a little too extra.
He literally built a murder hotel where people would check in but they would
never check out because he would murder them. I mean, the contraptions he thought
of included a chute that he could dump bodies down, an incinerator
where he could burn them. He would have airtight rooms that he would then fill
with poison. I mean, it's just insane the amount of stuff that he did and got away
with for so long. He would murder entire families. It's so hard to wrap
my head around that it's something that actually happened, but it did. And then, oh
yeah, it looks that the world's fair also as they were building that, which is
interesting, but the whole time I was like, "Get back to HH Holmes! What is
happening now?!" So really great book. If you can only read one true crime book,
I would definitely say read that one... Well now I'm doing a disservice to the
other books. You know what, read them all. You've got the time...Maybe you don't, but
do it anyway. A book on my to be read list is The Good Nurse. I haven't um
heard much about it. I don't like going into these books knowing too much
because I don't want to set any sort of expectation ahead of time, but I think
it's about a nurse who kills her patients. So, should be interesting. Hmmmmm.
So, four true-crime recommendations for those of you like me who have a dark
soul and enjoy reading such things for some godforsaken reason. All right, thank
you so much for watching. As always, don't forget to like, subscribe, do all that
good booktube stuff, and I'll catch you next time. Thank you so much! Bye.
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