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hour_of_the_rat t1_jac5j38 wrote

>but the show was quite good

I had the exact opposite reaction. I didn't read the book, but from what OP is saying, the tone of the book seems to match the HBO miniseries--an almost endless amount of everyone talking about how awesome Michelle was and how "then we realized" over and over and over again, without focusing enough on everything else--details of the case, victims, police, suspects, etc.

I was expecting a documentary about the serial killer, but it's actually a documentary about Michelle.

I was surprised at how much I didn't like it. HBO is generally known for its high quality, but this got past the editors.

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hour_of_the_rat t1_j5zi9yb wrote

They built all that, and they have a tram?

If they tried to build that in the US, it would have been budgeted for 5 billion dollars, incurred cost overruns, and ended up costing $8.5 billion, three workers would have died, 20% would have been embezzled, generated a dozen lawsuits, 6 people would have gone to jail, one person would have murdered another person's wife, and it would be 4 years overdue. And it would leak constantly.

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