NOTHING IS STRANGE WITH MR. NORTHCOTT, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. As I imagine most people will be drawn to this book after watching Clint Eastwood's film Changeling, I'll start with a heartfelt recommendation: if you want to know what the real events were, or if you're only slightly intrigued by the story and want to know more, BUY THIS BOOK NOW. You will surprisingly find out that most of what you've been shown in the movie Changeling, is fiction. And bad fiction, by the way. Hollywood-style superficiality at the very worst. And it is not the first time that Mr.... more info
Self-published, and it shows; could use a good editing I first came across the name Gordon Stewart Northcott years ago in a Los Angeles Times article about the death penalty in California. Because the image of an early-century, chicken-farming serial killer is so different from that of the later monsters who'd stain the scene, the story lingered in my mind, but the case is so old that there was little to be found about it on the Internet, or elsewhere, until Clint Eastwood's "Changeling" was released. This book manages to digest and regurgitate some of the late... more info
Disappointed in this book This book is horribly written. the way it is written makes if very hard to follow because it jumps back and forth between people and places.
The author of this book should have had a few more writing classes before he tried to write this book.
I will never buy another of his books!
Review of "Nothing is Strange with You....."
Well written, this book describes the life and crimes of a very sick family. It is riveting. After seeing the movie, this book filled in all the "details" about the crimes. Well done. Great read.