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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Start date: December 16, 2014

Finish date: December 16, 2014

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Mar 15, 2013 Haylee Lederer rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics, gilmore-girls-reading-challenge

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 ...more

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Jan 13, 2017 Will Waller rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical, non-fiction, classic, is-a-movie

Wow. Excellent read, moves along quickly and is as frightening as a four person murder can be. The callousness of the killers, the picture of the "Last Laugh," and the chilling atmosphere of Garden City and Holcomb are on-point. Would recommend this to anyone who enjoys true-crime. Not as "flashy" as I thought it would be, since I saw Capote. Amazing he got the conversations he did with the number of people he did.

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