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A review by jandahazy
Columbine by Dave Cullen
5.0
I was home sick from work on April 20, 1999 and watched in horror as the events at Columbine unfolded on live television. I have been interested in the story ever since and was amazed by how many facts about the story I had wrong based on the initial media reports.
Dave Cullen does an amazing job of taking you back in time and giving you a glimpse into the lives of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as the victims, survivors and families affected by this tragedy. I was shocked to find out that Eric and Dylan were not the poor, picked upon nerds that they were portrayed as, but rather the bullies themselves. I have always laid a certain amount of blame on their parents but after reading the book and discovering that Eric was a true psychopath who had the ability to fool everyone around him, I can see how signs were missed.
A lot of the blame in the book rightfully falls on the Sherrifs Dept. and their lack of follow through on the many complaints about Eric Harris, including information on pipe bombs that he was building. This is a tragedy that could have been prevented.
I was worried that this book would leave me scared to send my kids to school but it actually had the opposite affect. There are many lonely kids who will decide at some point to take a gun to school, but hopefully there are very few psychopaths who would try to cause the destruction that Eric and Dylan unleashed on Columbine.
Dave Cullen does an amazing job of taking you back in time and giving you a glimpse into the lives of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, as well as the victims, survivors and families affected by this tragedy. I was shocked to find out that Eric and Dylan were not the poor, picked upon nerds that they were portrayed as, but rather the bullies themselves. I have always laid a certain amount of blame on their parents but after reading the book and discovering that Eric was a true psychopath who had the ability to fool everyone around him, I can see how signs were missed.
A lot of the blame in the book rightfully falls on the Sherrifs Dept. and their lack of follow through on the many complaints about Eric Harris, including information on pipe bombs that he was building. This is a tragedy that could have been prevented.
I was worried that this book would leave me scared to send my kids to school but it actually had the opposite affect. There are many lonely kids who will decide at some point to take a gun to school, but hopefully there are very few psychopaths who would try to cause the destruction that Eric and Dylan unleashed on Columbine.