Reviews tagging 'Pedophilia'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

108 reviews

archiedh's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, and Child abuse

ethrbo's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs, Pedophilia, and Rape

strange's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

It’s hard to really give this book a rating— it’s a 5 on the writing quality and impact, but somehow it just feels like there’s something missing that I can’t quite place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Pedophilia, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, and Rape

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Cancer, Blood, and Addiction

Please, please, please do not push yourself to read this if you in any way feel you’re not ready

tansybradshaw's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.0

I wanted to give this book a higher rating, but for me it fell a bit short. It wasn't the way that Capote told the story, or any of the extra detail. I think it was because this book is dated by the language that is in it. By that I mean the slurs that were commonplace at the time of writing were seen as ok. To read it today, it jarred very regularly and took me out of the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Pedophilia

magic_frog's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Child death

Minor: Racism, Pedophilia, and Rape

em09's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death

rachel_green's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.75

It was quite a heavy read, but fascinating in exploring attitudes US society in the 50s

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

erindatema25's review against another edition

Salacious and gross. Truly disgusting and idolizes the murderers pieces of shit. Extreme focus on the killers and not considerate of the family. Plus this is a horrible story.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Pedophilia, and Violence

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