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". . . part true-crime entertainment, part academic exegesis, part political folk ballad. . . . Strand’s cross-threaded tales of drifters, stranded motorists, and madmen got its hooks into me. Reading Ms. Strand’s thoughtful book is like driving a Nash Rambler after midnight on a highway to hell." (New York Times)". . . draws startling parallels between the inexorable advance of the Interstate System and the proliferation of killers who were pathologically stimulated by that long, open road." (New York Times Book Review)". . . a hybrid of cultural historian and indefatigable roving reporter, who can't help taking quirky pleasure sometimes in what ought to be an utterly grim story." (Newsweek)"Ginger Strand is in possession of a sharp eye, a biting wit, a beguiling sense of fun—and a magnificent obsession." (Bloomberg)"Strand proves herself to be a first-rate storyteller." (Booklist)"The grim stories of murder on the highway may do for road trips what Jaws did for surfing." (Kirkus Reviews)"Who knew that these marvelously engineered clover-leafed roadways would not just drive the economy but also create a deadly combination of social transience and personal anonymity, destabilizing sociopaths and psychopaths while making them feel invulnerable to legal consequences? . . . Killer on the Road merges the chilling appeal of true-crime stories with compelling social history." (American History)
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About the Author
Ginger Strand is the author of Inventing Niagara, a Border’s Original Voices choice, and Flight, a novel. Her nonfiction has appeared in many places, including Harper’s, OnEarth, The Believer, and Orion, where she is a contributing editor. She grew up mostly in Michigan and now lives in New York City, but spends a lot of time on the road.
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Product details
Series: Discovering America (Book 2)
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: University of Texas Press; Reprint edition (February 15, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0292757522
ISBN-13: 978-0292757523
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.6 out of 5 stars
29 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#462,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I gave the book "Killer on the Road" by Ginger Strand three stars because only one chapter, Chapter 5, tells me about the life of truckers and the dangers of truck stops. Several other chapters discuss the cases of Charles Starkweather in Nebraska, Wayne Williams in Atlanta, Ed Kemper in California, Henry Lucas in Texas, in addition to time spent on Ted Bundy and other serial murderers. The cases of those mentioned above are in other books and need not be repeated here. Chapter 5, on the other hand, provides the reader with what life on the road is like for a trucker and the dangers that exist at truck stops. Author Ginger Strand gives us her distinction between a sociopath and a psychopath. I always assumed they were the same, but she states a sociopath would have a lower intelligence level (Charles Starkweather) than a psychopath (Ted Bundy).The life of a trucker is one of the top ten most dangerous jobs with a high turnover rate. It's a lonely job with a lot of sitting down and eating unhealthy food at greasy spoon restaurants. The author mentions that any truck stop in New Jersey is dangerous, but other areas such as the Nashville area of Tennessee is listed as well. However, no one area can be considered immune from danger. With loneliness on the road being a problem truckers and prostitutes often find one another at truck stops and murders often occur in such circumstances. A trucker may commit a murder in one area and be hundreds of miles away as he moves along to his next stop. I did find a lot of interesting information in this chapter, but the other chapters on various serial killers I have found in other books and felt as though they were included here as fillers for the book.
Many books have been written on how starting in the 1950's and up through the 1970's, the highway and interstate system in the United States transformed the American landscape both geographically and culturally. This book rehashes a few of these arguments and observations.Many books have been written about serial killers and people who have killed other people. This book is sprinkled with such stories.However, the author attempts (and I stress the word attempts) to link the two unrelated issues. Do highways and interstates exist? Yes. Do killers and does violence exist? Yes. Is there a strong connection between the two as this book argues? Not really. But the book tries to stress some correlation between the two by using singular and one-off examples to prove the overall thesis. It doesn't work. This book simply doesn't make a lot of sense and I struggled to understand really what the point of the book was.Here's an analogy: I do some research on the timeline of the Apollo space program. I then do some research on the history of animals being tested in labs. I then write a book that bounces between the two topics (using specific qualitative examples rather than data) and attempts to draw some very loose connection between them -- but I throw in some overly clever writing in order to try and string you along. It won't work just like how this book doesn't. However, if this got published then maybe I should shop my idea around to a publisher...Just buy a book about the history of the interstate ('Onramps and Overpasses', 'The Big Roads') if you're interested in the highway system, and if you're interested in serial killers buy 'Serial Killers' by Vronsky'. This book serves no need, uncovers nothing new, and adds nothing to any existing argument or debate. And to make matters worse, the author's own "gotcha! look how clever a writer I am!" writing style bleeds through on every page -- and it's annoying.Pass this book and take the next edit for another book on your list.
I have just finished _Killer on the Road_, which I read from cover to cover without stopping. It is a rather short book given the nature of its thesis and I was worried that the brevity would mean that it lacked depth. I bought a copy for two reasons: first, I read a lot of books in the True Crime genre because of being close to five murdered people, because I want to understand the act of murder better; and second, because of the review of this book by the New York Times yesterday.Now that I am done with it, I am pleasantly surprised how it covered a rather wide array of threads and pulled them together to make a coherent and believable narrative. I put it down wishing that it were longer - something I can not say about a lot of books these days. As a retired academic, I am very impressed by the work. The author presented and supported her thesis well, and wrote just enough to do that and not a word more. As someone who has suffered the torture of grading undergraduate essays and peer-reviewing journal articles, I am impressed at this feat of prose construction. This is superlative writing.The book also contained insights into already-familiar serial killers that this jaded consumer of True Crime books did not expect. For example, the saga of Edmund Kemper is one I have encountered several times. I expected that the author would have little new to add to all the Kemper reporting already published. I was wrong. The author engaged my interest and kept it by presenting Kemper within the context of America's car-centric culture in a narrative that eschewed sensationalism.I do have some quibbles. I'm not sure that examples like Kemper really belong when compared to more mobile interstate killers. Kemper's crimes never crossed State lines whereas some truck-driver murderers often cross the continent. In the author's shoes, I think I would have discussed only killers with transcontinental reach. Next, there are annotated end notes at the back of the book; however, I can find no corresponding end note numbers in the text. Last, I had problems reading the quotes printed on the occasional photo though that may be an artifact of the itty bitty screen on my laptop. But these are small quibbles and not enough to convince me to give out 4 stars.
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