You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life: You Are Raoul Moat

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When I look at you, I see an amazing, beautiful person who has so much to offer the world.” – Barrie Davenport Final Thoughts on the Amazing Person You Are When there’s no one to lift you up, find your own wings. And when there’s no one singing your song, find your own voice. For you are amazing. You are strong. And you are capable of anything. I think that you are incredible for being able to accept obstacles with open arms and I think that that is a remarkable attribute to possess.” – Unknown His purpose is to show Moat as a product of our culture and society. The author takes us inside the killer’s head without giving the reader the privilege of distance in which to judge and dismiss him. The result is an uncomfortable, claustrophobic read. Hankinson follows the techniques of New Journalism that Truman Capote pioneered in the 1960s, where the levers and tools of fiction were used to make true crime more immersive. He deploys the urgent present tense and the second person. “They release you from prison at 10.55am.” This gives the narrative the feel of an unfolding video game. It also has the familiarity of advertising copy, the “you” of opportunity, which is compounded by the ironic title and cover in the style of a 50s advert.

In case no one has told you lately, you are amazing, strong, brave, wonderful, kind, loved, worthy, and there is no one like you. The world needs you.”– Unknown a completely random find while I was sitting in the library before work so this should be interesting.The next section is health. You write that you have asthma and need more help with it. You write that there was a recent accident where your hand got crushed, shattering the bones. It has not healed properly and doesn’t work properly. It looks terrible. This is a narrative in the great tradition of Norman Mailer or Hunter S. Thompson - or, given its North of England flavour, Gordon Burn or David Peace. Masculinity, media and life on the margins of modern Britain are all put under the microscope via the true and sorry story of outlaw Raoul Moat … His very public disintegration is captured perfectly by Andrew Hankinson.

If you do something it must have a purpose: it may help you improve and grow, help you or others live a better life, etc. 3. Get in the best shape possible Andrew Hankinson’s You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] is an account of Moat’s last days that, written in the second person and drawing on diary entries and previously unheard tapes, reads like a novel. You are way more awesome than you think you are. Don’t forget about your awesomeness today.” – Janna Cachola Louis Theroux, creator of My Scientology Movie -Both an experiment in empathy and an exploration of the limits of empathy,holding the reader hostage in the echo chamber of an angry and confused man's head After we learn about Moat’s life and he’s carried out the shootings, the book sags in the middle as Moat’s directionless ramblings repeat his problems: how his ex means the world to him, his paranoid delusions of the police persecuting him, blaming his bad childhood, and on and on. I understand why this lengthy passage is included – to show us the mundanity of a so-called monster – but re-reading information we learned earlier in the book is still an extremely onerous part of an otherwise fast-moving and gripping read.Eventually, cornered by the police, Moat shot himself. Andrew Hankinson, a journalist and a Geordie, tells Moat's story in the second person, which means that the listener is uncomfortably close at all times to Raoul Moat. It is an audio experience unrelieved by authorial distance or omniscient interpretation. You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]was published in the UK and Australia in 2016 and published in the US in 2018. You’re not going to kill yourself tonight. You’ll give it one last try with Sam. It’s you and her against the world.