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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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haileyeh's review against another edition

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dark informative sad slow-paced

3.0

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hydras's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

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kfergy's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

Considered the first contemporary "true crime novel," the writing is very compelling and the quotes from and conversations between characters/witnesses is a really interesting approach to telling the story. It makes me wonder slightly about creative licence on the part of the author, but I dig it. Huge warning for racist slurs though - you could say it goes with the territory for the place and time, but a warning nonetheless.

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halaagmod's review against another edition

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4.0

Extremely chilling, but utterly timeless in subject, artistry, and legacy.

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katadamz's review against another edition

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Coming out of this novel, I respect Truman Capote as a storyteller and master of the English language even more than I did before. However, he did lose any credibility as a journalist or as someone with reasonable taste in men (

allegedly, he was in love with the murderer Perry Smith

).

I am glad I finally finished the novel. My initial impression trying to read it over a decade ago was that I would happily read a book about small town American life written by Capote, but that the brutality of these murders was hard to stomach. I stand by that assessment, especially as it crawled to the conclusion, with Capote's focus narrowing onto

Leavenworth's death row

to an almost disturbing focus. The prose though, is beautiful and sparse, in a beautiful mid-20th century style.

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lynnzee's review against another edition

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dark informative sad tense

3.75

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calamityin's review against another edition

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1.5

While it's one of the cornerstones for True Crime as a literary phenomena, it's incredibly insensitive to the victims and those around them. It's frankly a bit disgusting the way that Capote describes these horrible acts as if they didn't happen to real people who had real hopes and dreams and lives.

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