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Harrowing and raw. Hard to read.
I wasn't a huge fan of the chapter organization and felt that it made me lose interest at times. I also feel like it was about 75 pages too long. I also had a hard time with how much the shooters were focused on. I feel like the author was trying to humanize them and I just couldn't buy it.
I wasn't a huge fan of the chapter organization and felt that it made me lose interest at times. I also feel like it was about 75 pages too long. I also had a hard time with how much the shooters were focused on. I feel like the author was trying to humanize them and I just couldn't buy it.
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Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma
Incredible book. This was difficult to read (bc the subject matter is a horrifying event that devastated families and an entire community), but so worthwhile. Dave Cullen seeks to answer “why” the Columbine shooting happened and also dives into how the community was affected afterward. As someone who grew up in the aftermath of the Columbine shooting, I thought it was interesting learning about what the media had gotten wrong and how that shaped how mainstream culture views this day.
File this along with books like The Only Plane in the Sky as heartbreaking to read, but completely important and so insightful. Thought the author handled all of the victims and survivors stories with such empathy and grace
File this along with books like The Only Plane in the Sky as heartbreaking to read, but completely important and so insightful. Thought the author handled all of the victims and survivors stories with such empathy and grace
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This is probably the difficult book I've ever gotten through, it's escaped its pages and had a huge impact on my mood and life as I've read it.
Cullen strikes a relentlessly factual tone, which is probably the only way to tell this story, but it occasionally jars against his attempts to get inside the killer's heads. When describing the plan at one point he writes "this is going to be fun".
I don't know that I would recommend this book to anyone but it is an incredible work.
Cullen strikes a relentlessly factual tone, which is probably the only way to tell this story, but it occasionally jars against his attempts to get inside the killer's heads. When describing the plan at one point he writes "this is going to be fun".
I don't know that I would recommend this book to anyone but it is an incredible work.
Harrowing and frankly difficult to get through at parts, but a story that needs to be told and remembered.
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