false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255599070m/168642.jpg 168642 73 "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. 1940709 book 1965 In Cold Blood total:53797|5:20494|4:19219|3:10034|2:2534|1:1515| 53797 216033 75727 2644 5 12 false false Wed Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 11:23:51 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 12:37:06 -0700 2008
Having never heard anything of the Clutter murders prior to reading this book, the experience of reading it was intense, gripping, a...more...]]> 5 8 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Mar 06 10:19:26 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 12 12:46:06 -0700 2007
As everyone must know by now this is considered the firs...more...]]> 4 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 14:19:38 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 19 16:08:49 -0800 2008 Capote to read the book on which the film was partly based, but I'm glad I finally got around to it, as In Cold Blood is a magnificent read. The first ever true-crime novel (or 'non-fiction novel' as Capote himself called it), In Cold Blood t...more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 07:19:08 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 07:02:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 6 false false Wed Dec 17 08:54:20 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 18:27:07 -0800 2008
However, I did complete...more...]]> 5 3 false false Fri Aug 08 05:17:29 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 05:18:03 -0700 2008 Capot...more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 21:10:54 -0700 2007 Wed May 23 09:20:29 -0700 2007 Capote and what's-his-name's (Toby Jones') performance in Infamous, it's rather difficult to even crack the spine of this over-explicated text without hearing the faint cackle of new-york-...more...]]> 5 2 true false Thu Mar 13 17:41:26 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 17:47:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 12:32:17 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 16 05:24:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Mar 09 17:50:18 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 18:06:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 17:05:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 20:01:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 14:27:51 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 15:44:18 -0800 2009
On the morning of November 14, 1959 Perry Smith me...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 07 21:49:45 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 22:02:31 -0800 2008
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published in 1966, and is based on events that happened almost fifty years ago. The events were real. This is not a work of fiction. The Clutters, an appropriately surnamed Kansas family, have their own complications withi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 12:01:13 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 10:58:51 -0700 2008
poor cutter family.. didnt know what hit them.. i wish i could live back in these days, wher...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 11:50:24 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 11:24:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 13:26:28 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 15:02:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 30 11:22:40 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 15 20:22:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 05 14:04:58 -0800 2007 Sat Aug 23 01:57:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=168642