Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth

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As a minor side note, the grammar and punctuation contain many errors. This can easily be overlooked; it was just unexpected for a traditionally published book by a prolific author. This book is laced with an arrogant tone throughout which honestly makes me more uncomfortable than the actual descriptions of the crimes committed. The author brags about his interactions with serial killers and other criminal psychologists, putting himself on a pedestal while expressing a condescending to the readers and those who may wish to get into his line of work. You would think that with his arrogant tone and bragging he at least knows what he is talking about and writes it in a clear and concise manner. That is not the case. He goes off on tangents which lead to nothing and actually take away from the case. He inserts his own opinions which would be fine if they weren't so pretentious. The writing is inconsistent and has a number of errors in spelling and grammar which makes you wonder if anyone actually read over this before publishing. Firstly; this book title is incorrect. Never in this book do we ever get to “Talk WITH Psychopaths” etc. This book should be called “Aimlessly Talking ABOUT” because that’s all you’ll read. Talking With Psychopaths and Savages - A journey into the evil mind: A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth He also rants about how he has proved that John Canaan killed Suzy Lamplugh but no-one will listen - perhaps that's because you wrote a book claiming the same unassailable knowledge that it was Michael Sams who was guilty of the deed.

TALKING WITH PSYCHOPATHS AND SAVAGES has a low average rating on Goodreads and now I know why, I don't usually like calling out the author if it's down to just a poor story but this true crime book came across as really tedious. Christopher Berry-Dee does not know how to write or how to not come across as an a**hole. I continue to read but the interview never comes, just a history of the killer and what he did (I could find this on Wikipedia) and the authors opinions.Also there was a part where he literally copied a chapter from before, which he said in the book was to 'avoid being repetitive' but it was really repetitive and very lazy in my opinion.

I don't care about your opinion, Chris. I'm not reading a true crime story to hear your politics. It was clearly insane of me to expect actual interviews with serial killers from a book which says "interviews with serial killers" on the front.This is cheap, empty, self-important writing, and the book hasn't been properly edited - poorly structured with unnecessary repetitions, spelling and grammar mistakes. There were some discussions about the anatomy of a killers brain, but not a lot. I would have liked to have seen more in depth intellectual discussion not just opinion. I was looking forward to reading this book, but I felt that it failed deliver on most fronts. Berry-Dee repeatedly states that he is not going to dwell overly on the salacious details of the crimes committed by the 'psychopaths' in question, while continually plugging his other books where he presumably does impart these tidbits. Instead, we are told that his focus is on psychopathy itself: looking at how psychopaths develop, whether they are born, and how one might recognise a psychopath in our own lives, etc. Disclaimer: I DNF because I was bored to tears. I struggled in vain to the halfway point before accepting that the time I had already invested in this book was time wasted. Talking with Psychopaths and Savages seeks to understand the motivations for what makes a serial killer a killer. Yet, it was not quite what I expected.