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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and…
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York (udgave 2021)

af Elon Green (Forfatter)

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""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon. The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that's what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his first victim. Nor will he be his last. The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the '80s and '90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience"--… (mere)
Medlem:aijmiller
Titel:Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Forfattere:Elon Green (Forfatter)
Info:Celadon Books (2021), 260 pages
Samlinger:Library books, Læst, men ikke ejet
Vurdering:***1/2
Nøgleord:nonfiction, lgbt, true crime

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York af Elon Green

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True crime writing rarely gets better than this. After reading you feel you understand the main facts of the case, no small feat given that the crimes described took place in multiple states over the span of decades. Even more refreshingly, this author doesn’t commit the cardinal sin of true crime writing (especially writing about serial killers) and glorify or in any way give undue attention to the man who ruined so many lives. Instead, ample time is given to an in-depth and nuanced portrayal of each of the victims, their personalities, histories, ambitions and their potential cut short too soon. When the author does get around to describing the murderer, it is in a reserved, factual way, the spotlight is always on the victims themselves, the investigative process, and the scores of people whose dedicated work finally brought him to justice. Overall an excellent book about a little known case.

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  Autolycus21 | Oct 10, 2023 |
The novel, My Government Means to Kill Me, by Rasheed Newson takes us back to the 1970s and 1980s, during the AIDS crisis, from the point of view of an African American man. The detail and observations are excellent, although there isn't much of a story. And the ending is so abrupt, I thought there were pages missing. Still a worthwhile read to get a unique perspective about what it meant to for a minority survive AIDS. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
A well written book on the death of numerous gay men in New York during the 1990's. The serial killer was evetually found. Very organized notes at the back showing how much research went into writing this book. ( )
  loraineo | Aug 8, 2023 |
Such a sad, grisly look at the murders of gay men. The research was thorough but I found myself wanting more personal details of the victims as well as the suspected killer. No pictures included of the people, the investigators, and the bars either which I found I really wanted. ( )
  Andy5185 | Jul 9, 2023 |
I normally don’t pick up nonfiction books but this one looked interesting. 1991, a body is found in multiple trash bags along the side of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Two more bodies around found, one in 1992 and another in 1993. This begins the search for a serial killer. The men are gay, all last seen in The Townhouse Bar in Midtown Manhattan. This book was hard to read but I didn’t want to put it down. Elon Green writes this book so that it’s easy to follow and leaves you wanting more. This book broke my heart but I really enjoyed the way the cases were presented and the thought and actions behind finding justice. ( )
  dabutkus | Sep 4, 2022 |
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“Last Call” is Green’s first book, and it admirably demonstrates his commitment to sidestepping easy sensationalism for the far grittier work of checking sources, poring over police reports and reinterviewing witnesses. In choosing a serial murder case that was scantly covered at the time, Green takes us far from the terrain of fashionably notorious Netflix psychopaths like Andrew Cunanan (whom Gary Indiana described in 1999 as “a diabolic icon in the circus of American celebrity”; that this now reads like a high compliment gives some indication of the culture’s ever-tightening embrace of the criminal)....Instead of focusing on the killer, Green opts to humanize his victims. This proves a thorny task when dealing with men who led pointedly secret lives. In the book’s epilogue, he explains that he was motivated by the lives that these men “wanted but couldn’t have. Here was a generation of men, more or less, for whom it was difficult to be visibly gay. To be visibly whole.” I would have put the emphasis on visibly rather than on whole.... Exactly how, where and why Rogers killed remains a vexing mystery. More than once in the abrupt final chapters, in the midst of reading about him, I forgot the murderer’s name. But it is to Green’s credit that I never forgot the names of the four known victims.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerNew York Times, Christopher Bollen (pay site) (Mar 7, 2021)
 
Journalist Green debuts with an ambitious if flawed look at an obscure serial murder case. In the early 1990s, five men were picked up in gay bars in Manhattan by a man who stabbed them to death and dismembered their corpses. Green provides detailed backstories of the Last Call Killer’s victims, showing how their life paths led them to their fatal encounters with the man who murdered them, Richard Rogers.... Green’s at his best in analyzing how the crimes were handled at the time, when the victims’ sexual orientation led to the murders being treated less seriously. The author did his homework, spending over three years reviewing records and interviewing those who knew the victims, but his methodology can be spotty.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerPublishers Weekly (Jan 10, 2021)
 
Opening with the discovery of the mutilated body of a Philadelphia gay man, journalist Green’s work devoted to the victims of the Last Call Killer appears at first to be another lurid account of homicide. However, the author treats the victims, gay men murdered in the early 1990s, who were picked up at gay bars in New York City, with respect, describing how they shared an identity that left them vulnerable not only to a sadistic criminal but also to indifference and sometimes open hostility from those charged with solving their murders.
tilføjet af Lemeritus | RedigerLibrary Journal, Bart Everts (Nov 1, 2020)
 

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""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon. The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. He looks bland and inconspicuous. Not at all what you think a serial killer looks like. But that's what he is, and tonight, he has his sights set on a gray haired man. He will not be his first victim. Nor will he be his last. The Last Call Killer preyed upon gay men in New York in the '80s and '90s and had all the hallmarks of the most notorious serial killers. Yet because of the sexuality of his victims, the skyhigh murder rates, and the AIDS epidemic, his murders have been almost entirely forgotten. This gripping true-crime narrative tells the story of the Last Call Killer and the decades-long chase to find him. And at the same time, it paints a portrait of his victims and a vibrant community navigating threat and resilience"--

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