Tags book digital library ebook epub. Search This Blog. Report Abuse. About Me mikutfrenzz View my complete profile. Paperback Free Download Click This was a short read, a bit hard due to the way it was written in its original format. The book told of a really gruesome story filled with both abandonment, abuse and terrible living conditions. These things ruined him as a person, ruined him mentally and physically.
He continued to do crimes, not give a crap because it is what he wanted to do. He was actually an extremely oppressed to the point that even the threat of crime, jail and abuse did nothing to detour him from his motives.
I can tel This was a short read, a bit hard due to the way it was written in its original format. I can tell that he was a very lost person, it is hard not to feel bad for him with the way his life went even though the murders were terrible. If he felt he had enough, it was enough. It was a interesting read, especially if you want to delve into the mind of a person who was ruined by humanity.
Feb 24, Jenny rated it it was amazing. I highly recommend reading the confession within the context of the prison system at the time as detailed in the excellent book Killer: A Journal of Murder by Gaddis and Long. Panzram was, as Dr. Karl Menninger put it, the logical product of the American prison system. Nov 02, Chillmira rated it it was amazing. This autobiography shows you exactly how Carl Panzram thought and why he did what he did.
Even though his actions are inexcusable it lets you understand more about the mind of a serial killer who also committed more than acts of sodomy. I would highly recommend this book to anybody who is interested in psychology. May 13, Simon Brown rated it liked it. Messed up. Mar 31, Egor rated it it was amazing. It is sad to see what cruel life can do to a man.
Mar 03, Jono rated it it was amazing. Jesus fucking Christ.. Reflexive and lucid. Anniz rated it liked it Apr 19, Sharon Houser rated it really liked it Aug 17, Kyrylo Korsun rated it really liked it Oct 18, Steven Beers rated it liked it Jul 06, Geeky Spice rated it really liked it Jun 04, Mihai Cosareanu rated it liked it Nov 06, M rated it it was amazing Feb 01, I think Anyway, despite being a prolific arsonist, thief, rapist, and murderer, I'm pretty sure Carl Panzram was the funniest criminal in the history of criminals.
He probably doesn't mean to be funny but he's just so earnestly hateful of the entire human Someone on here mentioned Carl Panzram when referring to a boss who was such a jerk that he might actually be the re-incarnation of him. He probably doesn't mean to be funny but he's just so earnestly hateful of the entire human race that I can't help but giggle. He's a serial killer, but not like the ones we're fascinated with nowadays.
He wasn't a sociopath and he didn't prefer specific types of victims except maybe assholes. He pretty much just killed everyone who pissed him off that he could get his hands on. And when he couldn't get the person who had pissed him off, he killed someone else instead.
He had a horrible childhood and was incarcerated off and on his entire life starting at the age of And this was in the early s when we wanted to punish, beat, and rape the daylights out of our criminals and put them to work making little rocks out of big rocks, literally. So in a way, I don't exactly blame him for despising humanity and living only for revenge.
This book surely made me examine my opinions about crime and punishment. Alright so he was a sociopath. View 2 comments. I don't like to totally emphasize the social in the shaping of humans but in some cases it seems fairly obvious that if a person's abused long enuf they'll become completely desensitized to abusing others.
Panzram, the murderer that this bk is about, is quoted as saying "In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have no desire whatever to reform myself. Everything you wanted to know about prisons and everything you didn't, from the words of a killer who hated all mankind and admitted to it too, and yet you can't help it but to feel compassion when you read about his life, half of which he spent in prisons starting at the age of 11, and then you see his humanity emerge and you cry and you think you'd probably become a killer too if you went through what he went through, and yet he was never broken, not until the very end.
A fascinating, horrifyi Everything you wanted to know about prisons and everything you didn't, from the words of a killer who hated all mankind and admitted to it too, and yet you can't help it but to feel compassion when you read about his life, half of which he spent in prisons starting at the age of 11, and then you see his humanity emerge and you cry and you think you'd probably become a killer too if you went through what he went through, and yet he was never broken, not until the very end.
A fascinating, horrifying read. Apr 11, Kevin rated it it was amazing. This book, in my opinion, is one of the finest books written about the life of a criminal and how the penal system shapes many of them.
It's really an autobiography, written by Panzram, with interludes and commentary between chapters. Feb 28, Budha rated it really liked it Recommends it for: rapists and crazy people. Apr 12, Shane Lusher rated it liked it. OK, so I just like people who don't care about anything..
Don't ask me why. I think I would rather be a serial killer than a corporate lackey. I AM a corporate lackey. Interesting and accurate perspective on social conditions around the turn of the 19th century and afterwards, left me understanding why killing people might have been one way out. Just in case I'm ever a suspect in any killing: it's not my way out, and neither is sodomizing men while robbing t OK, so I just like people who don't care about anything..
Just in case I'm ever a suspect in any killing: it's not my way out, and neither is sodomizing men while robbing them, but the man does have several valid viewpoints. Dec 19, Nate rated it it was amazing Shelves: crime.
Panzram was an utterly evil and violent man. He was also a powerful writer and his life story is a warning to a 21st Century bent on imprisoning as many as possible as brutally as possible. Sep 14, Keijo rated it it was amazing. I've no doubt he would've murdered the whole world if he was able to. He said as much in any case.
And I can't say that I can rightly blame him. For what a rotten world it a has been, b is, and c will be for the foreseeable future. Then again, as far as I am concerned, no amount of good will ever make equal the endless a "One thing you can count on: You push a man too far, and sooner or later he'll start pushing back.
Then again, as far as I am concerned, no amount of good will ever make equal the endless amount of bad that humankind has reaped upon itself and others throughout history.
For if there never was any humankind, no one would miss the good, whereas it'd still be good to forgo all the bad, if you get what I'm saying most don't. In other words, Panzram gave the world what it fucking deserved. And regardless of the fact that he robbed and raped and murdered, I admire his honesty and integrity. He was under no illusions about what he did and why he did it unlike, for instance, Ted Bundy who blamed pornography—well, Ted, if pornography was to blame, we'd all be serial killers.
And if Panzram was evil, he was only so as a mirror of society—or at least certain aspects of it. Is it therefore so wrong to feel inspired by the man? As Nietzsche said, you must become who you are. And Carl Panzram was definitely who he was, without any shame or pretence. And what that was was a man who wanted to take revenge on existence itself. And rightfully so. Oh right, and the book was brilliant.
Aug 20, Janet rated it it was amazing. If Tom Sawyer had struck out on the open road and ended up in juvenile detention instead of on a raft, he might have become Carl Panzram. Panzram's story is no less iconic and American for having sprung from the darker underbelly of American society. For all these things I am not in the least If Tom Sawyer had struck out on the open road and ended up in juvenile detention instead of on a raft, he might have become Carl Panzram.
What he has to say about the American prison system is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it almost a hundred years ago. This edition which may be out of print alternates Panzram's autobiography with needed historical commentary, offering perspective on the world in which Panzram lived and operated. It's essential reading. Jul 03, Helle Quinn rated it it was amazing. He stayed to converse for a few minutes, catching his first glimpse of a strong if uneducated mind.
Intrigued by the pages that rustled underneath his jacket, Lesser walked straight up the the jail barber shop, turned on the overhead light and sat down in the bi "It was AM before Lesser got a chance to slip into Isolation to pick up the first batch of writing.
Intrigued by the pages that rustled underneath his jacket, Lesser walked straight up the the jail barber shop, turned on the overhead light and sat down in the big wooden chair.
The narrow, lined tablet pages were still fresh with carefully penned words which stretched tightly in a slow, even hand, from one edge to another. The top of each page was neatly numbered. Lesser could not find any words for what moved him. He felt the grip of a life and the horror of a personality flexing the heavy muscles of retaliation and revenge. A disturbing yet totally fascinating book. I'd never heard of this true story, until I stumbled across a documentary released in called Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance.
Brilliant, but yes, a very dark film. Panzram was a serial killer, and an unrepentant career criminal in the 's. He was an angry violent man made even more dangerous by years of serving time under merciless penal codes and the prison abuses of the early 20th century.
He made one friend in his his bloody A disturbing yet totally fascinating book. He made one friend in his his bloody 38 years of life, prison guard Henry Lesser, who convinced him to write down his life story. It's a sad, sick story. Lansdale PDF Online. Bigner, Clara J. Gerhardt PDF Online. Mueller PDF Online. Reynolds PDF Online. Hammer, Stephen J. Copstead, Jacquelyn L. Banasik PDF Online. Kirszner, Stephen R.
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