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Very much enjoyed the book - the way it was told with details about the various characters appealed to me. Sadly I had no clue it was non-fiction until after I finished!! ???
I think I recall there was some suspicion Harper Lee wrote it for Capote or vice versa / Capote’s lifestyle and questions about the appropriateness for required student reading. Did not recall it was true crime.
I personally could have ended at the apprehension and skipped the trial, appeal process and background of insanity ...more
I think I recall there was some suspicion Harper Lee wrote it for Capote or vice versa / Capote’s lifestyle and questions about the appropriateness for required student reading. Did not recall it was true crime.
I personally could have ended at the apprehension and skipped the trial, appeal process and background of insanity ...more
Good read - I think I tried to read it before in high school and didn't get beyond the first chapter or so. It's an interesting hybrid of "traditional" novel (characterization, descriptions of people, places) and the true crime novel (reporterly, factual). I think that the latter genre nowadays tends to make the event read more like a history and less like a novel.
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