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My question: did I wait too long to read it? I have heared so many people raving about this book that I really expected an ‘aha- erlebnis’. I never got it.
Granted: it is an excellent book, written in a very distinct style. I see how at the time of its first publishing, it would have been rather Revolutionary.
However, I felt there was an uneveness to the story, it lacked pace. The different character lines were very interesting, but sometimes it got boring. I think if you want to document extensi ...more
Granted: it is an excellent book, written in a very distinct style. I see how at the time of its first publishing, it would have been rather Revolutionary.
However, I felt there was an uneveness to the story, it lacked pace. The different character lines were very interesting, but sometimes it got boring. I think if you want to document extensi ...more
This one was on my largely abandoned Classics Club list, and I managed to burn through about half of it during Readathon.
For those of y'all who have been living under a rock with me, In Cold Blood tells the story of the quadruple murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. The story profiles the Clutters before their untimely demise; their murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith; and various members of the tiny Holcomb community leading up to and after the murderers' arrests and subsequent ...more
The way that Capote structured the narrative is wonderful - even though we know what is going to happen he manages to build suspense. From how the criminals carried out the murder and how the police tracked them down, to how the trial went and how the sentences were carried out, I felt pulled through most of the book.
Most, but not all. In the middle a bunch of background material written directly by Hickock and Smith bogged me down. The accounts end up being important later in the story when the ...more
Most, but not all. In the middle a bunch of background material written directly by Hickock and Smith bogged me down. The accounts end up being important later in the story when the ...more
Dated English, and hard to read for a ESL. The book reflect the day to day of the life's affected by those murders, the bizarre and twisted minds of the killers and, and the anxiety of the investigators assigned to the case. Love the way the book takes you through the story, not giving you the motives or the connection between the family Clutter and the assassins, till a BIT of reading.
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