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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

18 reviews

emersonseyeball's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Violence, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Car accident, Chronic illness, Gore, Abandonment, Cursing, Physical abuse, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Classism, Domestic abuse, Rape, Pedophilia, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual violence

lilliansbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Death

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

lilytheravenclaw's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Pedophilia

Minor: Racial slurs, Cursing, Car accident, Hate crime, Racism, and Mental illness

athereaderofbooks's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.0

Clearly, I would not recommend this true-crime novel. 

I will give kudos to a couple of aspects of this book: 

1. It was organized in a notable way. It started with showing the past of both the victims and their killers. Their environments were taken into consideration and you developed an idea of their character. Later it led to the investigation and we found out how the murder occurred through confessionals. Truman Capote followed the case until its conclusion. 

2. The entire book was thorough with everything. If something was mentioned it was never offhandedly, and we understood how everyone and everything contributed to the narrative. 

But despite these factors, I hated this book. This is the first time that I have read a true crime book, and this most definitely affected my rating, but this was horrific. Why would I want to read about an entire family being murdered

because some thieves wanted money??

How does one find enjoyment in such a subject when they themself could one day be the victim of such an unsuspecting crime? The Clutters likely never thought of this likelihood and look what happened to them. The only thing this book added to my life was more anxiety, and I already have enough. 

 On top of this, there have been multiple people who have contested the accuracy of this book, saying that there were many pieces of opinion inserted and falsehoods added into the book. (Not just random people online, but people who themselves have analyzed this crime.) 
 
This dragged on and on with a really excessive form of writing and the only interest I had was finishing this book so I could get it over with, understand what happened, and try to forget it. 

And to me, most importantly, there were multiple instances where racial, homophobic, and in general degrading slurs were used. This includes but is not limited to the n-word, the f slur, and out-of-date referrals to Asian, Black, and Native American people. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Car accident, Death of parent, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Abandonment, Bullying, Excrement, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and War

cherryredmarlene's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Violence, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

meganpbennett's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.5

I'm not sure what I think of my first true crime story (recommended by a True Crime aficionado librarian I know). The story was interesting enough, with Capote showing readers how the convicted committed the crime, and how the felt about it. 

I found In Cold Blood not what I expected. It wasn't gripping or page turning (in fact, I think I finished it out of pure desire to finish it and not because I especially liked it). I wasn't a huge fan of the writing style, nor of the emphasis placed on how non-remorseful Perry and Dick were over the whole thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Violence, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Grief, Child abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Pedophilia and Child death

carsonlott's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.5

i really really enjoyed this book. capote invented the true crime, nonfiction novel and is an absolute genius. however, some parts of the book felt unnecessarily dense — like an information dump. despite this, the story was absolutely captivating and even made me feel nauseous at some points. would recommend to anyone with a tough stomach kr true crime lover, 4.5/5. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Vomit

creativeerosion's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, and Pedophilia