Zodiac: Auf der Spur eines Serienkillers (German Edition)
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Rolling Stone (about the movie)
A meticulous, mind-bending, nonstop mesmerizer of a movie.
LA Weekly (about the movie)
Zodiac is the sort of vast, richly involving pop epic that
Hollywood largely seems incapable of making anymore.
Hollywood largely seems incapable of making anymore.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't put it down,
By StevieB (Old Stratford) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer (Paperback)
Without a doubt, the Zodiac killer is one of the scariest characters I've ever come across in fact or fiction!
The book is basically the result of years of investigation by the author into the still unsolved Zodiac murders. Robert Graysmith was a cartoonist who worked at one of the papers that Zodiac continually wrote to during his killing spree. Graysmith poured thousands of his own hours over a number of years into the case, determined to solve a case flooded with clues and suspects, but seemingly destined to go unsolved. Graysmith sets the scene of the times so well, and his attention to detail (which although sometimes borders on the excessive) helps the reader paint a picture of the characters involved (victimes, detectives and suspects). As a result, at times the book is quite disturbing (descriptions of some of the murders are pretty gruesome) but because of the fascinating story behind the whole Zodiac thing and the passionate way it's told here, it's difficult to put the book down. I finished the book wondering how a crime where there were so many clues, so many opportunities to catch the person responsible, is still officially unsolved to this day (although there is a prime suspect who is mentioned in the book) and despite the gruesome and just weird nature of the crimes, it leaves you wanting to find out more. The book has now been made into a major film 'Zodiac' and it's also very good and quite true to the book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting yet flawed,
By Virgil Hilts ""Hilts"" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer (Paperback)
While no-one can doubt the hard work Robert Graysmith has done, the thousands of hours he's devoted to the investigation and the enormous number of facts he has collated from different sources, his investigation is topsy-turvy: he seems to have decided early on who he believes the Zodiac to be and then tried to make the evidence fit, rather than dispassionately looking at the evidence. Sure, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence to support his theory, but also an enormous amount of evidence that points away from his suspect. Anyone looking at the facts and also reading analyses from other investigators and psychologists will have genuine doubts about his conclusion. That said, his descriptions of the killings, his descriptions of the exhaustive police work and the characters of the detectives, and his ability to convey the fearful atmosphere in the San Francisco area during the Zodiac murders are superb - just a shame that he has massaged some of the facts, and chosen to ignore others, in order to point the finger at his preferred suspect. The case is far from solved.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An insight into the minds of two astonishing people.,
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This review is from: Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer (Paperback)
This is the only book I've been compelled to write a review for. I picked this up after seeing David Fincher's movie, which is not a bad thing to do because of the vast amount of names that crop up in the first few chapters, being able to put a face to them helps.
This is probably the best account of a mystery ever put on paper, it is a fact by fact account of twenty year investigation and it is an incredibly compelling insight into the minds of two astonishing people. One unspeakably evil, the other unspeakably dedicated. Who do you think did it?
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