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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Start date: December 1, 2013

Finish date: December 31, 2013

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Mar 23, 2016 Becky rated it really liked it

I've never read "true crime" before, and I don't think that I will again, but I am glad I read this. I cant resist reading a book that basically created a genre. Capote created a work of art, a new style, a new way of storytelling, even if there were moments t0o wonderfully literary to be strictly true (and also reputed by the living that were involved.) Capote never flinches away from the depravity of the murderers, but still manages to make them human and sympathetic, which, in some ways cause ...more

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