From the Bookshelf of Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge…

Columbine

Dave Cullen

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 8, 2018

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Aug 23, 2024 Katrina Harris rated it really liked it

I’ve never read a nonfiction book that brought me to tears as many times as this one. I’m glad I read this - but what a tragedy. Everything you think you know about Columbine is wrong. This was a failure on so many fronts. I appreciated the afterward and hearing Dave Cullens voice break as he talks about how being in the middle of it (even as a journalist) impacted him and his mental health.

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Aug 10, 2019 Caitlin rated it it was amazing

Required reading.

I don’t recommend powering through this book in under 24 hours like I did(I have 3 other books checked out and need to move on quickly), but I recommend this highly. Days later I am still thinking about it.

This is the most comprehensive piece of media about the Columbine shooting ever released. I will have this sitting with me for a while, but the mass murders in this country sit on my heart every day.

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Mar 16, 2017 Emily rated it really liked it

An eerily dispassionate account, but very interesting. I was the same age as the students and killers when this tragedy occurred, but after listening to this, I realized a lot of what I remember was actually false reporting and conspiracy.

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