Este libro lo compré por morbo en un aeropuerto; no está tan mal.

too many people were in it just because they killed children, not because of the horrific ways they killed them. Many prolific serial killers were left out in exchange for them.

Sick of smiley-face fiction? Here's a group of homo sapiens you'll never find in a Mitch Albom novel. This title did rise above many in the dime-a-dozen true crime genre: instead of just profiling the predictable lineup of baddies, the author reached back in history to collect tyrants like Caligula and Nero as well.

Athough this small and surprisingly densely-packed volume will show you the worst examples of humanity through the ages, the large number of typos is very distracting.

I thought the book was very interesting and informative. I hadn’t heard of some of these people before reading it. There is a good mix of politicians and murderers who all did terrible things. The title draws you in and Michael Powell delivers.

8,6/10

I love true stories and crimes. I fall into that group of people that wants to know all the details. I know I'm weird. I really did love this book. I learned of people... Well monsters I had never heard of before. Reading it I started guessing ahead of who might be listed in the book. There were many I didn't find that should be featured in a sequel book.

1. Lizzy Borden (even though acquitted, I feel she's guilty)
2. Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
3. Adam Lanza
4. James Holmes
5. Zodiac Killer
6. Dennis Rader (BTK)
7. Henry the 8th
8. Herb Baumiester
9. Ariel Castro
10. Scott Peterson
11. Andrea Yates
12. Andrew Cunanan
13.Dean Croll
14. Lyle and Erik Menendez
15. Casey Anthony (I feel she is guilty)

I consider this book a bathroom reader with more bite, a who's who catalog of the very worst among humanity. Each section is like a dossier on one particular murderous piece of excrement. The information doesn't go much in to depth, but it certainly provides you enough for a conversation piece. There's the usual suspects within these pages, but it's the ones that you haven't heard of that are most shocking.

I loved this book. I've read it half a dozen times.

It is about the size of a grown man's palm and has, obviously, 101 people you won't meet in heaven, if heaven existed and judged people on how uncrazy and completely non-psycho they were.

Most of the people in this book are men; there is a little note before you dive into this lil pocket guide that men are usually the craziest mofos on Earth, but there ARE a handful of women that are sadistic, twisted, insane, and downright bloodthirsty in their own right (Elizabeth Bathory is in here.. bloodthirsty .. tee hee) that are featured in this book.

It goes, if I recall, in alphabetical order. It is almost like a two to three page baseball card of stats like:

-Birth
-Death
-Place (where they pretty much staked their crimes)
-Aliases and real names
-Early childhood and background
-What qualifies them as worthy of being mentioned in this book
-A quote or two by them


Some of the quotes are creepy and haunting, some of them reveal their true personality, that being cold, cruel, or infinitely perverse or mentally messed up and skewed ("A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic" - Josef Stalin)...

Some are really darkly comedic, a few tidbits that would make a nihilist or knower-of-the-cruel-sad-fact-that-is-life ruefully smile.

"I'm the Niceman, not the Iceman." (Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski, notorious assassin and hitman)

This goes from way back.. Genghis Khan to Ed Gein to Joseph Stalin to Mobuto Sese Seko (man he is ONE Crazy Motherfucker.. check out his hat though!)



Cracked.com told me he had a law that no one can wear a fancy hat like his while in his country (Democratic Republic of Congo.. Democratic my ASS)

But yeah, if you want a quick rundown of the baddest of the bad--in a BAD and HORRIBLE WAY-- then check this book out.. it's quick and easy to thumb through, and I've found some "favorites" of mine.. Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, Joseph Stalin (mustache of power!), etc. And some new ones I've only heard mentioned but never really knew the backgrounds or details of..

Creepy but great!

Don't judge me for reading AND owning this book ... it was REALLY interesting. I found myself re-reading almost every page because it was all just so disturbing, yet fascinating.