Every Woman's Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking |
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Steven Long
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Pages: 256 (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN: 0312937415
Pub: St. Martin's Press
Pub date: 2006-04-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 180918
Reader Reviews:
Bog standard and unsatisfying :-( (1/1 people found this helpful)
I like to read True Crime and I can tell when the author has engaged with the people involved and wishes to enable readers to engage and question also. Equally, I can tell when someone is detached ... and this is one of those!
Mark Hacking came from a respected Mormon family and married a respectable Mormon girl. Yet, for years he lied to them all, keeping up the pretense of attending medical school and continuing the family legacy of becoming a physician. It was his wife's discovery of this huge lie, and Hacking's need to protect it, that ultimately led to her murder.
How does someone lie to such a degree, and for years? What, in their life or personality, could lead them to do this ... and maintain it? What, if any, part did Hacking's childhood play in this story. What does the pressure of keeping up such a facade for so long do to someone's sense of stability? How does it skew their perspective?
Long very briefly and half-heartedly touches on these questions, which are key to who Hacking was and why this crime happened. Yet, his analysis is weak and unsatisfying, especially when this story, in the right hands, could have been a truly engaging study of the breakdown of a personality.
I think another reviewer said the story needed fleshing out and this is a good way of putting it: it is a bit like reading a long summary. The lack of analysis or contemplation (or, dare I say, enthusasim) on the author's part prevents the reader from the learning anything other than the straightforward facts.
An Unnecessary Book (9/9 people found this helpful)
There is absolutely nothing in this book that has not been covered in the press. This is clearly a contract job, where a writer is tasked to spit out a book in 2 weeks. And believe me, it shows.
The author clearly had no access and/or interest in obtaining new sources of information that would add depth or clarity to the story. Too, the writing style is confusing and redundant (no doubt to flesh out the book). Don't bother.
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