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I just wonder why it took me so long to get this masterpiece on my currently-reading shelf. What a breathtaking story! And told in the most amazing novelistic style! The cold-blooded murders in Kansas in 1956 are described by a cold, distant narrator via the interviews of the family, acquaintances, and community around the victims and the hair-raising stories of Perry and Bobby, the murderers. It is a real page-turner - I couldn't put it down! The descriptions of the youth of all the tragic prot
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I don’t generally gravitate towards novels based on a real-life murder case, but during my senior year of high school, my parents introduced In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Never read it until now. This is my first 5-star of the year.
A journalistic masterpiece.
The best parts you'd enjoy would be Perry and Dick (the murders) would talk about why they did it or what they did before and after the whole situation. While some might be critical of the long flow time, when the author is demonstrating ...more
A journalistic masterpiece.
The best parts you'd enjoy would be Perry and Dick (the murders) would talk about why they did it or what they did before and after the whole situation. While some might be critical of the long flow time, when the author is demonstrating ...more
This one was a re-read, and when I first read it I would have given it a solid five stars.
Sadly, in the 25 plus years it has been since I first read it, I’ve consumed too much Netflix and true crime/horror porn (and I’m teetering on being jaded and irrelevant—and there have been too many school and house of worship shootings). The result: it lost some of its original punch for me.
Nevertheless, Capote’s rich detail makes this one worth revisiting. Recommend!
Sadly, in the 25 plus years it has been since I first read it, I’ve consumed too much Netflix and true crime/horror porn (and I’m teetering on being jaded and irrelevant—and there have been too many school and house of worship shootings). The result: it lost some of its original punch for me.
Nevertheless, Capote’s rich detail makes this one worth revisiting. Recommend!
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