A review by mermerdundun
Columbine by Dave Cullen

3.0

I had interest in reading this, but hearing Dave Cullen on Julie Klausner's podcast really pushed me to purchase it. Unfortunately, I thought the tone and organization of the book was so off! I'm not sure how many facts about the massacre that the book revealed (quite a lot to me, especially regarding the police's handling of it) but if most of the information is "common" or accessible, then this book would have been even a larger disappointment. It was interesting because I love hearing about psychopaths (like the rest of America?) but it needed some editing, reorganization... Cullen seems to adapt a really simple tone throughout the book, even mimicking like the killer's language (okay... maybe any high schooler's language) and that detracted from the overall point.