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4.5 stars rounded up
Aug 22, 2019
Teri
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On November 15, 1959, in a quiet town in western Kansas, a family of four were sound asleep resting up for another day on the prairie. It would be their last night alive. During the night two men, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith broke into the home of Herbert Clutter with the expectation to rob the family of the tens of thousands of dollars apparently sitting in a home office safe. There was no safe and there was only $40 total in the house. The men planned to leave no witnesses, executing the four
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Somewhere between 2 and 3 stars. I haven't decided yet whether it'll get rounded down to two or up to three.
The prose was decent, but especially in the first half Capote made some stylistic choices that felt really awkward - for instance quoting multiple individual adjectives in a row to describe the Clutter family. That toned down a bit and it got a bit smoother once you got past the first 100 pages or so, but it still felt a little labored and never quite lived up to the expectations I formed ...more
The prose was decent, but especially in the first half Capote made some stylistic choices that felt really awkward - for instance quoting multiple individual adjectives in a row to describe the Clutter family. That toned down a bit and it got a bit smoother once you got past the first 100 pages or so, but it still felt a little labored and never quite lived up to the expectations I formed ...more
True crime has never really been my jam, unless you count a brief foray into amateur Ripperology during my adolescence. (Not sure who he was, but he probably wasn’t the prince.) One of the worst aspects of the true crime genre is that the victims tend to end up getting far less space in the narrative than the murderers, which is partly because, by definition, they aren’t around to tell their side of the story, and partly because it seems as though we have a deep seated urge to attempt to underst
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Niki
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Jennifer N.
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it was amazing
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