Book Review Of Assuming Names A Con Artist's Masquerade
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade by Tanya Thompson, is a non-fiction, autobiography. The story is about a 15 years old girl named Tanya. In the first part of the book she run away from home in Tennessee to, seek out the high class life she believe exist only in populated city, Dallas. While pretending to be a 23 years old high class countess, that travel with her “master”, she gained country wide attention. From FBI, to immigration and naturalization office. Tanya was known as “Counterfeit Countess” deceived every one of them. Tanya present a true natural of lying, and acting on impulse. But also, in the face of danger; she will fight back, and get her revenge. In the later part of the book, it described how she gets married, and
are now in her 20s. She is in a loveless marriage, with a neglectful husband. Tanya, as tireless as she is in her teenage year, embark on many other adventure where she thrived in the intensity and possibility of getting caught. She start small by stealing money from places she work, later she commit identity fraud to open fake bank account. And also she embark on a impulsive trip to mexico: befriend drug dealer, agree to smuggling and risk her life by “participating” in a car chase- in the middle of the night. The conflict of this whole book is mostly man vs. man. But most of the conflict are purposefully inflicted by Tanya: herself. With an IQ of above 150,”creative geniuses” she said “I wanted Chaos. I wanted to be chased. I wanted to be questioned, suspected, respected and loathed. I wanted to fight for my life and liberty. More than anything, I wanted the pleasure of fear...I did it to add to the mayhem of everything else I was doing, all in an attempt to tip my over into the pandemonium, looking for the thrill of being overwhelmed and challenged, hoping someone would pursue so I could run. ”(195 kindle Thompson)
My favorite part of the book, would be how Tanya stated making false identification. It fascinate the lack of security back in the late 1980s. Also, this part of the book give me the fascination of watching how a genius's mind work. I would recommend this book to 13 years and above. There are physical description of using drug, and semi-description of rape and semi-detailed description of sex. Also include child abuse, reckless driving, physical violence, fraud and other illegal activity.
are now in her 20s. She is in a loveless marriage, with a neglectful husband. Tanya, as tireless as she is in her teenage year, embark on many other adventure where she thrived in the intensity and possibility of getting caught. She start small by stealing money from places she work, later she commit identity fraud to open fake bank account. And also she embark on a impulsive trip to mexico: befriend drug dealer, agree to smuggling and risk her life by “participating” in a car chase- in the middle of the night. The conflict of this whole book is mostly man vs. man. But most of the conflict are purposefully inflicted by Tanya: herself. With an IQ of above 150,”creative geniuses” she said “I wanted Chaos. I wanted to be chased. I wanted to be questioned, suspected, respected and loathed. I wanted to fight for my life and liberty. More than anything, I wanted the pleasure of fear...I did it to add to the mayhem of everything else I was doing, all in an attempt to tip my over into the pandemonium, looking for the thrill of being overwhelmed and challenged, hoping someone would pursue so I could run. ”(195 kindle Thompson)
My favorite part of the book, would be how Tanya stated making false identification. It fascinate the lack of security back in the late 1980s. Also, this part of the book give me the fascination of watching how a genius's mind work. I would recommend this book to 13 years and above. There are physical description of using drug, and semi-description of rape and semi-detailed description of sex. Also include child abuse, reckless driving, physical violence, fraud and other illegal activity.