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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

5 reviews

emy_clemy's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0


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henrygravesprince's review against another edition

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dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.75

Capote’s prose is masterful, but the non-fiction aspect was handled in a way I don’t find responsible, and I think that, as one of the first major modern true crime media “sensations”, In Cold Blood embodies many of the same problems that true crime media, particularly dramatizations, maintains today. I don’t dislike Capote, and in fact I quite like his writing for the most part, but I couldn’t in good conscience give this book a wholly glowing review. There would still be issues if I looked at it the way one looks at fiction, but monumentally less — that said, it is not purely fiction, and I can’t look at this novel & not be acutely aware of the fact that these were real people & the facts were embellished in ways that can’t really be brushed off, in my opinion.

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emersonseyeball's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0


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cherryredmarlene's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

i changed the rating from 4 to 5 stars because i think and talk about this so much it would be weird if i’d only give it 4

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creativeerosion's review against another edition

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dark medium-paced

3.0


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