They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
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Bruce Robinson
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Phil Fox
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Bruce Robinson
About this listen
A book like no other – the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history’s most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I.
For over a hundred years, ‘the mystery of Jack the Ripper’ has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England.
But what if there was never really any ‘mystery’ at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice?
In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history’s most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and institutionalised corruption.
Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson’s inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts – the so-called ‘Ripperologists’ – to make clear, at last, who really did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.
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"One of Britain's biggest cult films." (Jamie Russell, BBC.com)
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"Robinson careers brilliantly through the illicit fascinations and sickening thrills of adolescence." ( Select)
"This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own." ( Sunday Times)
Praise for Smoking in Bed: "Enthusiasts will relish his razor-sharp wit and comic timing." ( Scotland on Sunday)
"Furious and lyrical." ( Sunday Times)
"Robinson's conversation is a work of art." ( Guardian)
"The recollections of Robinson are a treat." ( Independent)
"The next best thing to a one-on-one." ( Time Out)
What listeners say about They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
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- Jonathan S.W. Bell
- 10-02-18
Yawn.
Don't get me wrong, the narration is great, and the book is well researched; particularly as the historical, sociological and criminological facts and references are apt and correct. However, the hypothesis posed (essentially that "free-masons did it!") just gets tiresome and predictable... I'm sure the author (Bruce Robinson) would read this review and assume that it was conspired by the cult itself...
This book definitely is not enjoyable as an audiobook. But, I suppose it has uses for 'academic' purposes... I.e. it's best used in paper copy, and completely boring as an audiobook.
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- Jill Desborough
- 12-10-21
Fascinating read with caveats..
I have to applaud B Robinson for the depth and extent of his dogged research. He seems to have unearthed so much material I've never come across ( although this does occasionally become something of a diversion.) The premis of the book is fascinating, and pretty convincing to a non expert. There was obviously wicked collusion by all parties in the Florence Maybrick trial, and certainly circumstantial evidence that his Ripper suspect was correct although circumstantial does not make the case cast iron... his own conviction however that it is.
The issue I found hardest to cope with ( apart from some of the graphic detail) was some of the language used... sluts and worse used frequently when referring to the victims, who he seems very uninterested in. I'm assuming he was trying to echo the attitudes of the times he was writing about with all the rampant victorian hypocrisy but it was often hard to read and really felt uncomfortable and provocative. If you do not like frequent use of every expletive this may not be a book for you. His rage at Victorian society andFreemasonry is absolutely palpable, quite possibly justified . He also sneeringly expresses his attitudes towards ripperologists, which felt unnecessarily belligerent. He obviously sees himself as a very different investigator.
Overall a very dense and articulate read ( caveat above) and a fascinating theory. Certainly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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- Mr S Barford
- 16-07-24
Absolutely Fascinating
Thoroughly researched, left no stone unturned. His assessment and conclusion are very difficult to not agree. Too many coincidences and the evidence for his suspect is overwhelming. Amazing book. I think I’ll reread it.
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- andrew
- 18-10-15
Brilliant detailed account of
This is an amazing piece of work. Absolutely gripping stuff. The story is much deeper and more shocking than we all believed....and we thought it was shocking to start with!
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- DJR
- 04-12-18
Wide Conspiracy Theory & Troubling Language
An interesting book on the Ripper with a clever candidate. However, throughout the book is troubling offensive language, used seemingly only for effect. The conspiracy is somewhat hard to fully buy into but the idea of police incompetence saying the Ripper was dead whilst the ghastly killing continued is more plausible. With checking out but with those two major caveats.
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- waragah01
- 06-01-25
Loved it
The attention to detail is amazing, you can tell so much work has gone into the research. The narration adds the icing on the cake.
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- Theodor Adorno
- 07-12-20
Awful Am Dram narrator!
The content of this book is as good as the narrator is bad. It starts off with the author himself reading and he would have been the perfect choice to continue. He has a bitter tone that conveys the book’s hatchet job on Victorian hypocrisy perfectly. Then comes the truly atrocious narrator who over-emotes nearly every sentence- the few that he doesn’t ruin show that he has the ability if he chose to read normally.
I’ve returned this title and have ordered the paperback instead ...
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- NickUKbuyer
- 24-02-19
Remarkable body of work
Anyone with even the slightest interest in the ripper murders really MUST read /listen to this supremely forensically researched book.The sheer blatant withholding of information and quite breathtaking avoidance by the powers that be of Masonic hints in the murders leaves a quite remarkable read . As for the “ nominee “ himself ...who can say ? But one thing this work does is completely blow the vast majority of the more preposterous candidates clean out of the water .The narration ( by the author himself) is nothing short of pitch perfect . Highly recommended
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- Anonymous User
- 12-10-18
good good
the best audio book I've ever listen too by far the narrator is brilliant . .
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- Sandra
- 02-06-16
Far too long
This book in my opinion was way way too long. The author made a really great case for his subject but went rather the long way around to tell you. So much could have been done without and it wouldn't have affected the content or conclusion.
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