
Sons of Cain
A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present
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Narrateur(s):
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Mikael Naramore
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Auteur(s):
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Peter Vronsky
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From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.
Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters" - killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.
In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers.
These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and - as popular culture has demonstrated - uniquely fascinating.
©2018 Peter Vronsky (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reservedExtremely interesting!
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Disturbing but Insightful
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Very intriguing
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pretty good
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He further does a fair - if a little superficial - job discussing causes, classification, profiling principles, and investigative techniques. Vronsky admirably mines forensic records, popular/media accounts, sociology textbooks, anthropology papers, and the psychiatric literature to explore the phenomenon of serial murder (particularly sexual psychopathy) - focussing on a survey of illustrative instances.
The main drawbacks to the book are a tendency to sensationalist descriptions (incongruous for the academic matrix), being too long (the chapter on violence during War could easily have been edited out), and an attempt to cover too much (the exhaustive nature of the book is appreciated.. but leaves readers/listeners with an impression of superficiality).
Still, I enjoyed the repeatedly renewed interesting nature of this thought-provoking book - written for a general audience - thoroughly. The 15 hours went by surprisingly quickly.
Doubtless, above-average reading from Mikael Naramore improved my estimation of the book, too. Naramore is by no means flawless (reading much too slowly, for example) - but exhibits spot-on diction, a timbre & cadence that is comfortable to consume for hours, and the perfect didactic tone for the text.
This 9/10 star encyclopedic review is a great listening choice for those who are casually interested in True Crime. It's a little bit too long - but if you can get it as a 'Plus' selection, 'Sons Of Cain' is well worth the time investment. It is likely even worth a Credit - if you're planning on going deeper into some of the cases discussed.
The book is an excellent starting point for people who are fascinated with the monsters among us known as Serial Killers.
[Incidentally: I very much like Vronsky's term for marginalized/less aggressively investigated victims like prostitutes, the poor, and minorities: somehow "less dead"]
Accessible Desk Reference
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Occasionally a bit too detailed for the faint of heart.
It made me rethink everything about Salem
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Strange references
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