• Growing Up Jeffrey

  • The True Story of Jeffrey Dahmer
  • By: Brian Lee Tucker
  • Narrated by: Jeff Hull
  • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Growing Up Jeffrey

By: Brian Lee Tucker
Narrated by: Jeff Hull
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Publisher's summary

"I couldn't find any meaning in my life when I was out there. I'm sure as hell not going to find it in here. This is the grand finale of a life poorly spent and the end result is just overwhelmingly depressing...it's just a sick, pathetic, wretched, miserable life story, that's all it is. How it can help anyone, I've no idea," quotes serial killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer upon his capture. It's too bad he didn't consider this before he killed 16 young men and dismembered their bodies - keeping souvenirs and eating some of them. What was it that set Dahmer off? What happened to him in childhood that left him so bruised and broken?

In the book, Growing Up Jeffrey: The True Story of Jeffrey Dahmer, author Brian Lee Tucker examines Dahmer's life from the other side of the coin, from his early childhood to his teenage years to his first murder - seen through the eyes of a young man who, feeling as though he had never been a part of anything normal and loving, kept his inner demons bottled up inside until he couldn't fight the urges he'd kept at bay too long, and exploded in a frenzy of sexual violence, murder, and unadulterated evil, his deviant sexual appetites finally satisfied - until he became lonely again.

Bonus material: an excerpt from Chameleon: The True Story of Ted Bundy.

©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2016 Brian Lee Tucker

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decent short read

narrator was somewhat monotone. Decent short read with necessary details. I'd buy it again for the $5 it was.

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Meh

I didn't feel most of the story could have been true. Narrator was pretty flat, as I'm Jeffrey was, but the whole story was.

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The narrator is dull and painful to listen to.

It's refreshing to hear a book read as a screenplay, but the narrator is HORRIBLE

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Really interesting story

Would you consider the audio edition of Growing Up Jeffrey to be better than the print version?

Yes

What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?

I thought the ending when he gets caught was interesting.

What does Jeff Hull bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I think he was engaging to listen to

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

I liked the format of the book, as well.

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