Tom Wilson asked this question about Where the Crawdads Sing:
BIG SPOILER I hated the ending. I can't think of another book where a sympathetic character is guilty of first degree murder. I just have no space in my heart or my mind to care about somebody who belongs in jail. It didn't have to end that way. On top of that, the idea that a murder was so well planned yet almost impossible to time out and actually commit is not at all realistic. Am I crazy?
George If, as the ever-ready Wikipedia declares, "Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse," then the killing wa…moreIf, as the ever-ready Wikipedia declares, "Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse," then the killing was not morally or ethically a murder. As the punningly named IvanOpinion explains in their answer here.(less)
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