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Columbine
by Dave Cullen
Wow this book!
After a prof recommended this book while I took an advanced crim course I had an interest to read it. This book is definitely difficult to get through with the content and focusing on a heavy topic, understandably. I found the amount of detail and topics focused on really interesting and it described various perceptions at different stages of the Columbine event. The author was one of the first journalists to be given interviews, access to documents and he spent 10 years writing this book which is phenomenal when you think about how much he went through to write it in such an insightful way. He excluded himself from the book almost completely so some of the interactions he describes are actually of himself but you don’t realize that until reading through the end notes. I really appreciated this tactic because it made the book read as more of an account for he event as it was intended rather than a bunch of interviews.
Highly recommend if you’re looking for a sociological, psychological account of an event that puzzled many for years and still leaves big remaining questions that will never be answered. I could honestly read this five more times and still pick up more information than the time before.
**side note: this is one of the first editions of the book but the newest 25th anniversary edition focuses more on the lasting societal impact since he published back in 2009**
After a prof recommended this book while I took an advanced crim course I had an interest to read it. This book is definitely difficult to get through with the content and focusing on a heavy topic, understandably. I found the amount of detail and topics focused on really interesting and it described various perceptions at different stages of the Columbine event. The author was one of the first journalists to be given interviews, access to documents and he spent 10 years writing this book which is phenomenal when you think about how much he went through to write it in such an insightful way. He excluded himself from the book almost completely so some of the interactions he describes are actually of himself but you don’t realize that until reading through the end notes. I really appreciated this tactic because it made the book read as more of an account for he event as it was intended rather than a bunch of interviews.
Highly recommend if you’re looking for a sociological, psychological account of an event that puzzled many for years and still leaves big remaining questions that will never be answered. I could honestly read this five more times and still pick up more information than the time before.
**side note: this is one of the first editions of the book but the newest 25th anniversary edition focuses more on the lasting societal impact since he published back in 2009**