This book was about Ted Bundy, written by a former coworker, and close acquaintance, Ann Rule. Spoiler alert, he's guilty. What I found most interesting about this book is that Ann Rule was a crime writer before she met Bundy, and was hired to write this book before it came out that Bundy was a suspect. Now, I don't know how I feel about it. I feel like the technical sections in this book were more tedious than in Moby Dick. And it seems like a common problem for me in all Ann Rule books that I try to ignore (because it isn't her fault, it's mine), but all the victims run together. There is just a bunch of women's names in close connection, with not much to identify them with, so when they are mentioned later in the book, I find myself flipping back to see which was which. Also, I guess why I didn't like this as much as her other books was there was no suspense. Even the things about Bundy I didn't know before were told in the first couple of chapters. I am sure at the time it was written everyone knew all about him and his escapes and his trials because they had watched them on the news, but the book was written four years before I was born. All I had heard about him were short little snippets here and there. But it was interesting to see the interaction between the two of them, and that unique perspective gives this book something that can't be recreated.
So now, 1,542 pages in 11.5 days. 134 pages per day, I am still ahead of schedule.
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4. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick; 1,773
5. Duma Key - Stephen King; 2,384
6. Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself - Alan Alda; 2,608
7. Greenwich Killing Time - Kinky Friedman; 2,774
8. Murder in the White House - Margaret Truman; 3,009
9. Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay; 3,312
10. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky; 4,080
11. The Taking - Dean Koontz; 4,544
12. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe; 4,753
13. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris; 5,025
14. Middlemarch - George Eliot; 5,761
15. Beloved - Toni Morrison;6,036
16. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne; 6,228
17. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood - Howard Pyle; 6,368
18. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; 6,612
19. Gadsby - Ernest Vincent Wright; 6,768
20. Pulp Fiction Selections - L. Ron Hubbard; 7,456
21. The Final Testament of the Holy Bible - James Frey; 7,856
22. Chili Dawgs Always Bark At Night -Lewis Grizzard; 8,125
23. The Greek - Pierre Rey; 8,573
24. The Pleasure of my Company - Steve Martin; 8,736
25. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - Tom Robbins; 9,200
26. Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs; 9,504
27. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote; 9,847
28. The Daybreakers - Louis L'Amour; 10,000
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