The Last Victim

Great Book Couldn't Put it down

If you're into true crime books you're going to love this book. I read it a while back but literally couldn't put it down! Definitely recommend this book. Trying to get my husband to read it.

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Interesting

I found this book to be wonderful. I love true crime stories, picked this one up one day and absolutely loved it. This is a great book.

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Great read.

Truthfully, I was initially hesitant about reading this book as I am more interested in the crimes rather than examining the perpetrator. But this book caught my attention from start to finish. The insight into the criminal mind was amazing and I recommend this book 100% to anyone interested in true crime.

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This book made the hair on my neck stand up!

The story grabbed and pulled me in, just as John Wayne Gacy pulled Jason Moss into his sick world and mind. Jason Moss took a huge risk with this adventure. I'm not sure if it was a brave or foolish undertaking. I would like to believe he is living well today, mentally and physically. I hope he was able to execute John Gacy from his mind and sole the way Gacy was executed from his own life on earth!

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HARD TO SWALLOW

I have read many books on serial killers. This one bored me. Moss takes way to much time telling the reader about how great he is and how intelligent he is. He also feels the need to keep telling the reader that he is not gay and is sickened to write the things in his letters. I also have a very hard time believing that this one peron gained confidence of so many killers. I believe that he had extensive contact with Gacy, but the others I believe he had to embelish. I would not recommend this book. There are so many great books on serial killers. This is about the self absorbed author.

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Outstanding

Jason is an incredible human being, extremely gutsy. I read this book in 1 day so hard to put it down. This book is an absolute must READ.

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Wow

Great if you like true crime. A little too much for me at times...

Captivating

Interest in book was peaked after watching movie recently on Netflix and reading about Jason and the taking of his own life...what a read this book was...

IN Interesting read

The way this is presented is very unusual. However, it was an excellent book with incredible insight into the mind of Jason as well as Gacy. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to dive into the minds of others, or simply want a great read. Also, I would recommend the movie.

Saw the movie

This movie was great i wont pay12.99 for the book!

Messed up book

I don't know what I thought I was getting into when reading this but it was disturbing. I give Jason credit for doing what he did. He was a very unique individual and brave but no wonder why he ended up commiting suicide. What he did was very impressive. The book left me disturbed...It was very well done though. If you like these types of books then by all means give it a shot. Leaves you with a new understanding of the minds of serial killers and how manipulative they are.

Too bad about Jason

This was an interesting book and Jason was an interesting person. I saw him last in April of 2006, then never spoke to him again. He killed himself on 06/06/06. I hope his daughter gets any additional proceedings from the book. Some roads should not be traveled down because it is hard to come back from.

Don't Bother.

The author writes as though he is a small child. I lost interest in this book before getting half way through it.

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Huge Fan of True Crime!!!

I absolutely loved this book! I couldn't believe that anyone would be daring enough to communicate with serial killers! But this guy did a remarkable job convincing these killers that he was the exact type of victom that they pursued...making it easy for him to get close to them and get information that even the best of detectives on the case couldn't get!! I first saw Jason Moss on Oprah I think, and instantly had to read the book...I think I went out and bought it the next day. I read it within 2 days and wasn't dissappointed! I highly recommend this book for anyone that is interested in the bizzarest of true crime!!

Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

This book is about a man, Jason Moss, who takes his college project to far. It starts out as a harmless project, but sort of turns out more then he expected. When he gets to writing to these notorious serial killers, he gets entrapped in their inner thoughts. He begins to play off his roles so good that they want to talk to him more then he expects, rather then him getting to know each one, they talk more about him. Some of the serial killers he writes to are John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez. These are the few that helped him in gaining credentials for becoming a criminal profiler for the FBI. I liked this book because it was funny at times, but for the most part it was very informative and very serious. It was very interesting as to how he (Jason Moss) was able to gain the trust of such killers and be able to hold conversations with them on paper and on the phone at times. When he was able to play off his roles that he used for each different killer he was very sincere and it seemed like he was the person he was pretending to be. This book was also very scary as to how this man would go to lengths that he did to open up certain things than not even his parent knew about him. He told them his most inner thoughts and desires. So I would say that this book kept me reading until I wasn¿t able to keep my eyes open to read anymore.

Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

This book is about a man, Jason Moss, who takes a school assignment to far. It starts out as being harmless but sort of turns out more then he expected. When he gets to writing to these notorious serial killers he gets entrapped in their inner thoughts. He begins to play off his role so good they want to talk more and more about him rather then talking about what he is trying to learn about them. The people he is writing to are John Wayne Gacy, Jeffery Dahmer, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez. These are the few he used to get his credentials for his future career in law enforcement in the FBI. I liked this book because it is very gripping with the way Jason Moss writes the story, also he doesn¿t write like a sophisticated adult, but rather to where any ordinary person can understand. So I liked this book because it was very fun to read and it was a fine book to the end. It kept me reading until the I was completely to the finish of it.

Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

Jason Moss's interest in cereal killers didn't come out of randomosity; rather it was planted in him at a young age. His mother had always read novels about murder and mayhem. Unlike normal mothers she always made sure to show young Jason the illustrations in these novels. Jason¿s weak stomach would overtake him, and he couldn't handle these books. Jason got older, and an interest in cereal killers began to take hold of him. Destined to conquer his fear of gruesome things, Jason would start reading biographies. He read of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacey, and Charles Manson, all cereal killers who killed in gruesome strange ways. Written letters from these cereal murderers would reveal the deepest and darkest places of the human mind. A simple college project would escalate into something no one could comprehend. This novel is an excellent biography not only into the life of Jason Moss, but also into the lives of the cereal killers¿ he wrote to. The mere idea of writing to cereal murderers will captivate you, giving you the urge to read even more. The secrets revealed to Jason Moss in letters and phone conversations left me dumbfounded with a cereal-killer¿s thought process. What amazed me even more was Jason¿s ability to fool these masterminds of murder into believing his fraud characters. He presented himself as a vulnerable teen, unsure of his sexuality, to Gacey. Then to Mason he took on the character of a Nazi civil rights leader, trying to fix all problems and parasites in society. The overall mood of the novel is an ironic feeling that will leave chills down your spine, only created by words in phone conversations and letters.

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Not True Crime

I was disappointed in this book mainly because Moss was such a braggart. This book seemed to focus alot on Jason Moss. The letters supposedly written to him, in my opinion did not seem credible. If you're going to read this book, don't buy it, get it from the library - it's not worth the money.

Good Book

This was an interesting book but I thought it should of had more of the authors letters from the serial killers so we the readers can get a better view on how they are. But overall it was a good book and it had pretty good manipulating stories from the author.

what research?

i am a fan of true crime novels so when a friend suggested this book i had to read it. and i was seriously engrossed in the book until i got to the reference moss made to some of the manson killings and saw that his information was all wrong, so from that point on i read the book like fiction. it seems that if you're going to take the time out of your life to write a book you want to have the facts right. i was also having trouble believing anything else in the book from that point.