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Mar 15, 2013
Haylee Lederer
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it was amazing
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The story starts off describing the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, and the all the particular details of the Clutter's family's last day/night alive. Reading this part was so eerie, because you know what is going to happen, you just don't want it to. The Clutters had such normal lifes, but I could still have read about them forever. Intermixed with the description of the Clutters, comes the descriptions of the killers. The title of the book implies that the killers had no particular reason for w
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So well written, and when you get right into it it's very readable and a page turner. But the style of writing can take some getting in to. In Cold Blood reads like longform journalism, which in some ways it is, which I found I had to be in the right frame of mind for (which is why it took a month to read, even though I actually read it in only three sittings - if you are in the right frame of mind it's very hard to put down). Capote succeeds in making two very despicable individuals human and e
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I'm bored, it's obviously fictionalized and it's a 17 hour audiobook. Maybe another time.
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Nov 18, 2010
Natalia
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Varnika
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May 04, 2012
Tiffany
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Savannah Oakes
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