Columbine by Dave Cullen

[Tami]

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Discuss away...

[Emily]

Anyone finished with it yet? What did you think? I found it REALLY interesting! My uncle was a policeman on the scene and my cousin was a freshmen there at the time.

[Tori]

I'm a little less than halfway through this and I'm finding it incredibly intriguing. Cullen is amazingly thorough with his analysis. At first I was a bit put off that each chapter didn't progress chronologically, but now that I've been reading it for a bit, I think it would have been entirely too overwhelming if he had.

It's also really interesting to see how quickly the media colored every account coming out of Columbine. I definitely think I'll be paying closer attention to so-called eyewitness accounts in the future.

[Kimberly]

Just started reading this. Intrigued so far!

[Kimberly]

About 1/4 of the way through the book. This is some tough reading...

[Tami]

I eventually hope to get caught up on our Group Reads, but I think this one is one I will probably keep putting off. I don't do well with non-fiction in the first place, but that whole situation is so sad on so many levels. I will get to it, I just don't see it being super soon.

[Anna]

I'm about half way through this book. I think its amazing so far. Just to let everyone know. The author puts things together so well. You would like after the first part that all the drama would be over, but he interweaves more excitement into the remaining parts.

[Marissa]

One of the best books I've read this year.

[Martha]

So I read this book earlier in the year and I thought it was really good. I don't usually read non-fiction but I figured it would be an interesting read because I had so much about it and vaguely remember when it happened (I a little kid) but I remember my mom freaking out because my brother used to play Doom, a game that both killers played and ended up getting rid of the game.

Overall, I felt that the author did an amazing job putting all the facts together creating a timeline of the events that occurred that day and making a psychological profile of the killers. I definitely recommend it!