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Plot Summary of Anyone You Want Me To Be
" John Robinson was the first recorded serial killer to use the internet as a means of collecting victims. He lured many women to Kansas where he made them sign BDSM slave contracts, told them he would be taking them somewhere for employment, then killed them, keeping all their possessions."
Trudy Scales, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Anyone You Want Me To Be
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Plot
job/profession: - criminal (killer)
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Taboo Sex Story? Yes
Kind of sex: - rape
Period of greatest activity? - 1950+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - killer
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental Yes
Eccentric: - eccentric - obsessed - mentally ill - deluded - emotionally unstable
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - American (!)
How sensitive is this person? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other people
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 (some)
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
City? Yes
Century: - 1980's-Present

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel? - concerned
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - rape/molest (yeech!)
Commentary on society? Yes
Commentary on - decency - dying
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject: - very unfavorable
Story of entire life, or part? - story of nearly entire life
Pictures/Illustrations? - None
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices? Yes
Lot of titilating info about love life? Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 51%-75% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story? - 0-25% of book
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