Slog - Comments on Amanda Knox's Fiction

Comment by Joh

Joh — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:39:44 -0800

One of my co-workers shared a room with her before she ran off to Italy, and now he sleeps on the bed she gave him when she left. I told him he should put it on ebay and proclaim it is the site of "a hundred terrible sex acts". Gotta be worth millions.

Comment by Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:42:45 -0800

Only by adding the letter she wrote to her mom in Italian class the day before the arrest do have a collected works. A bilingual author, no less.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2869155.ece

Comment by Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:52:00 -0800

Never in American history has a short story gotten so much attention...

I had to stop reading about there.

Comment by GoodGrief

GoodGrief — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:06:21 -0800

I am sure she is all broken up that she can't write masterpieces like this:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=31580

Comment by Big Sven

Big Sven — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:28:46 -0800

Amanda Knox is the Fatty Arbuckle of the Twenty-First Century.

Comment by bma

bma — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:39:43 -0800

Thank you *so* much for contributing to the circus around this case. Almost as classy as this great news item from a few months ago.

Fucking pathetic.

Comment by David Wright

David Wright — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:52:22 -0800

Why isn't there a link to the story so we can read it for ourselves? (I did try google, but I didn't dig very deep.)

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:10:38 -0800

Why is she still alive?

Comment by laterite

laterite — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:36:19 -0800

I dunno, somehow I can't imagine an Italian prison to be all that idyllic.

Comment by Terry Parkhurst

Terry Parkhurst — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:25:22 -0800

It would seem that if the prosecuting attorney can successfully introduce Amanda Knox's short story into the trial that seems to be upcoming - perhaps as much a year out - then she is off to prison, as an accessory to murder. What a gutless little wench, to just put her hands over her ears whilst her roommate was raped and murdered.

She might not have been able to get them to come in time, but the very least she could have done was call the "politzi."

This is what the student exchange program to Italy has come down to.

In a truly just world, Ms. Knox would go through the same exact experience, to know exactly what her roommate went through.

Hey, if she goes to prison, maybe she will. I wonder if she has ever read "Deliverance"? Squeal like a pig, Amanda!

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20:16 -0800

@ 10:

back off on the vengeance-is-mine vibe. thankfully, italian justice is less medieval than the US of goddamn A, and a "truly just" world isn't coming. ever.

"blessed are the merciful, for they shall know mercy."
-jesus fucking christ

Comment by Mark Kaufman

Mark Kaufman — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:47:15 -0800

"nestled between olive groves and pines in the hills outside Perugia."

The P-I article was the strangest bit of "journalism" I've ever seen on a murder case! Did they hire a travel writer stringer to cover this? What's next a food critic filing stories on prison grub?

Comment by anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:08:26 -0800

I used to go to the coffee shop she worked at in the U-District everyday for lunch. She took my order and made my soup/sandwiches on several occasions. I can't believe she is capable of doing something like this, if she really did it...

Comment by Z

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:17:22 -0800

@13:

I used to go to that same coffee shop. She made my lattes. I can kinda believe it...

Comment by Sleepless In Seattle

Sleepless In Seattle — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:52:39 -0800

Well, she played soccer with my daughter and went to the same high school together but I only knew of her as a 'spectator of high school soccer'....Not all kids who go to private school are 'Rich' ...trust me BUT...here is my take on this senseless, AND Brutal Murder....

Someone who lived at the same 'flat' as Meredith Kercher had to somehow let the 'murderer in'....

Someone who lived at the same 'flat' as Meredith Kercher had to have the keys to lock Meredith inside her bedroom...

Someone who lived at the same 'flat' as Meredith Kercher had to have confiscated Meredith's cell phones and throw them across the way into a 'neighbor's yard'...

Whoever this 'Someone Is' to me, is the Real Murderer....yes, whoever put the last knife wound into Meredith's throat meant to kill her [probably]...

TO LEAVE A STABBED VICTIM [WHO HAS BEEN SEXUALLY VIOLATED]LOCKED INSIDE HER ROOM SO THAT SHE, MEREDITH, WOULD BE UNABLE TO CRAWEL OUT AND MAYBE GET HELP....AND THEN TO BE SURE TO TAKE MEREDITH'S CELL PHONES FROM HER ROOM AND AWAY FROM HER SO THAT MEREDITH WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CALL THE POLICE OR MEDICS OR FRIENDS FOR HELP...

WELL...THAT IS THE REAL MURDERER IN MY MIND!
THE OFFICIAL REPORT FROM THE CORONER SAID:
"IT TOOK AT LEAST 2 HOURS BEFORE THE VICTIM [MEREDITH KIRCHER] BLED TO DEATH FROM A STAB WOUND TO HER NECK"!

SICK, DISGUSTING, BRUTAL, FRIGHTENING, HORRIFYING, PITIFUL, SENSELESS AND HEARTBREAKING.

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE

Comment by andrewmalone

andrewmalone — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:10:54 -0800

Hi,
I'm just back from Perugia and keen to speak to any of Amanda's friends. It seems like there's a lot of nonsense written about her and I'd like to write the truth