![]() He claims she raped him! And in fighting back he accidentally strangled her to death. Then while being questioned he has a brilliancy. ![]() Unfortunately, his idea of fun is to get wasted, and while wasted he chokes her to death, and then realizing what he has done, tries to make it look like a rape in Central Park. She finds Robert and wants to have fun with him. Along comes Jennifer Levin, a not completely pretty, but sexy, lively girl, who just wants to have fun. They think his unsavory character is sexy. Mommie, nonetheless believes her son will turn it around and amount to something. He bombs out of prep school after prep school, mainly because he is caught stealing to support his cocaine habit. Robert Chambers is a pretty boy loser, a druggie and a sociopathic sickie. An Irish Catholic nurse born in Ireland, she has devoted her life to climbing up the social ladder of New York society and pushing her very handsome son through the best prep schools, etc. Indeed, his mother has styled him as a Kennedy. The dark side of the NYC Preppie Scene, circa 1988 To misquote a long-held belief – and I don't even remember who made the original quote "The jury system is the worst system in the world, except for all the others!" As an outsider, I don't know how much of that could have been totally relevant to the jury impartially. But I think that the author presented a solid case and formidable details, much of which the jurors were not allowed to consider. I'm sure that it was a difficult case for the jury, also. I can't imagine this case being particularly easy to write in an unbiased way, but the author did a good job! My own biases, philosophies and prejudices resulted in my formatting my own opinion, unfortunately early on. I was in college and grad school during the 80s, and although I was never a popular kid, I can envision sex and drugs taking over the lives of those who were – considering the amount that drugs had to play in the 70s! ![]() I don't know whether the author or the editor chose the title, but it definitely describes the way the reader feels about the lives and or deaths of the two teenagers. and no, Kavanaugh is no Chambers, but the he said/she said playbook is the same: women are sacrificed to save men who never learn. hugely insightful about class privilege, our highly imperfect legal system, victim-blaming, sexual shaming, and the brainless media. the crime was a heart-breaker but it's hard to feel sorry for a sociopath, except you sort of see how he got that way. Wolfe portrays multiple points of view swiftly and surely. the murder made national headlines for a year before the trial started. Central Park was the crime scene, the milieu was moneyed prep-school grads who drank and partied, and the motive was "rough sex". Jennifer Levin, 18, was his victim in the wee hours of August 27, 1986. born only son she was a hard-working nurse who provided him with opportunities he failed at the pretigious schools she shoe-horned him into, eventually opting for drugs and burglaries. She was a plucky self-starter from Ireland he was a first-U.S. WASTED is about Robert Chambers, a fascinating monster who failed to live up to his mom's unrealistic expectations of him. I used to read author Linda Wolfe in New York magazine 30+ years ago and marvel at her long investigative pieces that brought twisted personalities alive through sociological detail delivered with relish. The Kavanaugh hearings put me in the mood for this book, which i bought a while back and forgot about.
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