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Cathlete
My BF and I ordered Son of Sam on On Demand a few weeks back. The movie was HORRIBLE, but the subject matter of course was interesting. It was a very low budget piece of junk that looked like it was put together by a first year film student at a community college. Anyway, that set off a wave of curiousity in said BF, who loves history and reading and he wanted to know the whole story. So, I bought him a couple books about serial killers.
He loves the books and learning, so I'm happy that he's enjoying them. But...I'm really not enjoying it so much when he tells me what each of these monsters did. He always waits to tell me until we're laying in bed going to sleep (his chattiest time of the day...not sure why). Then he gives me all the disgusting and disturbing details. And while it's interesting...all I can think about is how awful it has to be for the families and friends of the victims knowing how the person they loved died and was violated, disrespected, objectified. I imagine how I'd feel if it was my brother, or child, and how do you live with that for the rest of your life?
I finally told him to shut up and that I was going to buy him a copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul so he'll get some sunshine and lollipops in his mind. He laughed and told me he had a copy (never read) that his mother bought him - worried about him. LOL. She's known the man for 26 years, I've known him for 1. I could have told her it would be a paperweight or a doorstop.
He's eyeing my copy of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe now...I think I have to hide it.
He loves the books and learning, so I'm happy that he's enjoying them. But...I'm really not enjoying it so much when he tells me what each of these monsters did. He always waits to tell me until we're laying in bed going to sleep (his chattiest time of the day...not sure why). Then he gives me all the disgusting and disturbing details. And while it's interesting...all I can think about is how awful it has to be for the families and friends of the victims knowing how the person they loved died and was violated, disrespected, objectified. I imagine how I'd feel if it was my brother, or child, and how do you live with that for the rest of your life?
I finally told him to shut up and that I was going to buy him a copy of Chicken Soup for the Soul so he'll get some sunshine and lollipops in his mind. He laughed and told me he had a copy (never read) that his mother bought him - worried about him. LOL. She's known the man for 26 years, I've known him for 1. I could have told her it would be a paperweight or a doorstop.
He's eyeing my copy of The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe now...I think I have to hide it.
If he's anything like my cousin (who is that age too), he isn't thinking much about how those crimes impacted the families, just morbidly obsessed with the actual criminal. I'll admit to being like that too though. I read/watch anything I can find on serial killers or famous murders - Jack the Ripper, the Manson Murders, the Black Dahlia etc... It's just morbid fascination I guess. I'm also obsessed with CSI and all those "Cold Case" documentaries etc... I do think about how it impacted the victims though and that adds to the whole tragedy/interest of it for me. As long as you don't find duct tape, trash bags, and other items in the back of his car, I think he's pretty normal! 
