Reviews tagging 'Rape'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

77 reviews

emy_clemy's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Violence, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Chronic illness, Gore, Domestic abuse, Child death, Abandonment, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Excrement, Adult/minor relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Racism, Ableism, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Suicide, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, and Car accident

js304808's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Suicide attempt, and Racism

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis and Animal cruelty

halaagmod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Blood

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Racial slurs, and Rape

Minor: Pedophilia and Hate crime

fboschetti's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Rape

katadamz's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racial slurs

Moderate: Racism, Rape, Homophobia, and Pedophilia

lynnzee's review against another edition

dark informative sad tense

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Racism, Pedophilia, Gun violence, and Violence

calamityin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Mental illness, Murder, Classism, Death, Racial slurs, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Rape, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Racism, and Car accident

Minor: Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

soswiin's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

definitely a unique format that grabbed my attention more than i thought it would've. yes, inventing dialogue and scenes made it read more like a novel than an informative essay as capote intended but it just didn't feel morally right. which is a dilemma that encompasses 90% of this book's controversies anyway. capote was brave for humanizing the clutter family's killers and i appreciate it to an extent — it elevated the pair from stereotypical jailhouse grunts to fleshed-out individuals with individual wounds and faults. while it added depth it still felt weird to ready about!! bad childhood ≠ the right to blow the brains out of an entire family. lot of repeated information which was quite helpful given the attention span i'd allotted for this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child abuse

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcoholism, Suicide, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Homophobia

ashwaar's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.5

This is another book I’ve read from my long list of classics and I really enjoyed it! I hadn’t heard of it before but it has been claimed as the first narrative non-fiction novel and whether that’s true or not, it was done really well. It’s a fascinating look into a seemingly motiveless crime in rural Kansas. Capote keeps the reader engaged throughout as you learn about and even sympathise with those involved in this chilling quadruple homicide.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gun violence, Murder, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, Rape, Pedophilia, and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Car accident, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

jacque18's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Rape