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A review by abraid1014
Columbine by Dave Cullen
3.0
I think I may be the only person who has not given this book 4 or 5 stars. I didn't dislike the book, but I felt like it could have been so much more.
I was only 10 when the "massacre" at Columbine occurred, so I don't remember a lot of it and I didn't know many of the details. As a result, I didn't hear any of the false stories, etc that were published directly after the attack.
I thought this book was very informative, but I feel as though it didn't present a lot of information. Cullen mentioned there were near 11,000 pages of police reports and witness testimonies from Columbine and the surrounding events, but I thought he presented the same bits of information several times through each "character". Actually, my biggest complaint about this book had to do with the information presented - there was actually very little information in the book, it was just told through the perspectives of several of the people involved. I don't know how many times Cullen mentioned the SAME destructive things Eric and Dylan did before "the massacre".
Really, what I took home from this book was that Eric and Dylan were really ineffective at killing people, parents get angry when their children die, and police suck. I already knew 2 of these 3 things, and I didn't need 400 pages to tell me that Eric and Dylan were ultimately unsuccessful in their massive annihilation of us zombies.
I was only 10 when the "massacre" at Columbine occurred, so I don't remember a lot of it and I didn't know many of the details. As a result, I didn't hear any of the false stories, etc that were published directly after the attack.
I thought this book was very informative, but I feel as though it didn't present a lot of information. Cullen mentioned there were near 11,000 pages of police reports and witness testimonies from Columbine and the surrounding events, but I thought he presented the same bits of information several times through each "character". Actually, my biggest complaint about this book had to do with the information presented - there was actually very little information in the book, it was just told through the perspectives of several of the people involved. I don't know how many times Cullen mentioned the SAME destructive things Eric and Dylan did before "the massacre".
Really, what I took home from this book was that Eric and Dylan were really ineffective at killing people, parents get angry when their children die, and police suck. I already knew 2 of these 3 things, and I didn't need 400 pages to tell me that Eric and Dylan were ultimately unsuccessful in their massive annihilation of us zombies.