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Carregando... Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story: A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murderde Shanna Hogan
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is MUCH more informative than JVM's book. Even though I watched the trial and followed the case closely, there were plenty of details in here that were news to me. I also like that the author didn't constantly insert her opinion throughout the book. She stuck to the facts. She did, however, give her thoughts on the case in the afterword. If you're going to read a book about Jodi Arias, I'd definitely recommend this one over JVM's. ( ) Before reading this book, after learning about the grisly Arizona homicide in 2009, I absolutely loathed Jodi Arias. I thought she was Satan's spawn. But this book gives you an insight into her world and her as a person. It's like reading her biography alongside Travis's (the murder victim) and all that lead up to their meeting and the last time they would ever meet. The book discusses her childhood, the possible abuse and mental illnesses she endured. Battling mental illness myself, one of which Arias is spectated to have (Borderline Personality Disorder) I felt regrettably connected to Jodi at times. She felt like someone I knew (omg is that person me?!) and for that I developed feelings for her. Although I don't agree with her and can't relate to her motive, I now can understand it. Here was a girl, deeply in love with a man, who constantly played tug of war with her feelings. On top of that he treating her like a piece of meat, and a piece of s*** calling her despicable derogatory names and acting like he was King Alexander. The man wanted his picture on the cover of Time magazine with the headline "Alexander the great,"-this alone should tell you everything. Even though Jodi was clearly obsessed with him, and what she did was absolutely gruesome and evil, Travis came off as a chauvinistic narcissist even with all the author's best intentions. The laughable part was he was a "Mormon" and wanted to find his "eternal companion..." Jodi was obviously not good enough even though what was between her legs was worth him dragging her along after he broke up with her months into their relationship. Though Alexander was attracted to Jodi, thought she was the "prettiest girl in the world," he never saw her as anything more than "something" to fulfill his dark, sinful fantasies. LEMMIE get to the point. Jodi felt like she was stabbed in the heart. She wanted to return the favor. But she CLEARLY overdid. Yeah, I watched the trial. Yeah, I think that she was proven guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt. No, I don't feel sorry for her. But, I did think that it would be interesting to learn more details concerning the principles involved. No, this book did not satisfy that desire. The book provided very few, if any, facts that weren't elaborated upon during the trial. It was not written in an unbiased manner, but rather skewed toward the victim (understandable to a certain degree). This resulted in a book that was more of a testimonial to Alexander Travis than exposé, and frankly, rather boring. This book really wasn't that bad, but because of the nature of the topic, I think it had to be written, edited, and published very quickly, and this shows. There is mention of the "corroded" artery in Travis Alexander's neck, which had me giggling until I banged my head on the coffee table (yes, I'm going to hell). That little tidbit is available on page 203, paragraph four or so. There were a couple other glaring errors: for instance, the written description of Alexander's tombstone says his picture is on the bottom left, while a picture shows the opposite. There's also a quote on page 141 attributed to one Marianne Williamson. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful..." I have previously seen this credited to Nelson Mandela. What, did you think I was going to look it up? Hogan's book is worth the read though. She tries to show both sides of the story, saving her personal opinion for the end. I appreciated this tactic much more than Jane Velez-Mitchell's. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done something so sinister? But soon a suspect was singled out--Jodi Arias. A beautiful, aspiring photographer, Jodi had been in a long-distance relationship with Travis the year before. But Travis wasn't interested in a serious commitment; he was seeing several women during that time. When he broke up with her, that didn't stop Jodi from leaving California, moving to just a few miles away from Travis's home, and inserting herself into his daily life. Investigators found one piece of startling evidence in Travis's home that implicated Jodi. But in a bizarre turn of events, Jodi would claim self-defense. Was she a victim--or a devious femme fatale? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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