Chris’s Comments (group member since Jun 01, 2009)

Chris’s comments from the Q&A with Dave Cullen group.

Dave,

I just finished your excellent book today and I have a feeling it is going to haunt me for a while. I don't have any questions for you but I do want to encourage you to keep writing, whether it be non-fiction or fiction. Throughout the book, I was impressed by the empathy of your voice, the diligence of your research, and the sound judgment you used in presenting the information.

Based on the events that occurred before and after the tragedy, I could see how a book about Columbine could have devolved into an angry rant about so many different groups of people, i.e. the killers, the killers' parents, the police, the media, the local Christian community, the greedy opportunists (a paid tour bus to the school within weeks of the tragedy?!), and on and on. And there's no doubt that many of those people deserve such a book. Learning more about the events surrounding the tragedy certainly didn't give me the warm fuzzies about humanity as we are clearly capable of some embarrassingly cold-hearted behavior.

You let the facts speak for themselves and left the judgment up to the reader. If you had an agenda, I didn't see one. Unless your agenda was to pull back the rock and expose all of the creatures that were hiding beneath the surface. If so, then I say mission accomplished. Now go find another rock!