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A sangue freddo

Truman Capote

4.02 AVERAGE

reflective slow-paced

Not a bad book but SO boring
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Mostly boring. What a shame. I appreciate what Capote was shooting for, but I think others have had better success.

Quotes:
 - she had not been spoiled but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable events

- Such accessories... add up to a "home town" that is probably remembered with nostalgia by those who have left it, and that, for those who have remained, provides a sense of roots and contentment.

- spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations

- the midnight hours were her "time to be selfish and vain"

- It is easy to ignore the rain if you have a raincoat. But how would she feel if she were compelled to hustle her living on the streets? Would she still be all-forgiving about the people in her past?

- So, in a sense, she was the only survivor; and what tormented her was the thought that in time she, too, would be overwhelmed: go mad, or contract an incurable illness, or in a fire lose all she valued—home, husband, children.

- Envy was constantly with him; the Enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

- “I believe in hanging. Just so long as I’m not the one being hanged.”

- “I just want to say I hold no hard feelings. You people are sending me to a better world than this ever was”
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Had to get to but so well written engaging chilling and devastating.
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