Different people have different opinions.........i read the book, most of it, during covid.....Frank Castle, marvel comics, the punisher.....Smith institute, original building, the castle..truncated, like a lot of stuff, i want the gist of stuff, not enough room nor time to post everything..
Authorial and Historical Absence in I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
I picked up my copy of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018) the summer before my senior year of college, in a homey, close-packed bookstore in the college town where I worked in June and July. I don’t remember how long it took me to read it, but I know I went too fast, mainlining the information and not taking the time to appreciate Michelle McNamara’s precise prose. I put it down feeling obscurely dissatisfied. Joseph James DeAngelo was charged with a series of rapes and murders that span twelve years and the state of California shortly after the book’s publication, which came two years after McNamara’s death. As a result, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark is silent on the killer’s identity, and its pages, full of masterful reporting, investigation, and self-awareness, are checkered with editor’s notes attesting to the work McNamara had hoped to do. What’s the point? I asked myself when I put the book down. It includes no answers, and certainly no closure. A few years later, however, I reread it, and realized that this absence is the point.
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