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A review by fireplacebookworm
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
dark
slow-paced
3.0
I decided to teach a book I don’t love. This was hard for me, but for the sake of teaching genre and rhetoric it was needed.
I really struggled to read this one. The first time and this time. The way the story is woven is boring, I said it. The prose is LONG, like page long paragraphs, making it tedious and dense. The glaring bias Capote had to Perry makes me question many of the “facts.” I also really wish someone would have truly found the “truth” of who did what.
I do enjoy that this is a pioneer in the true crime genre. It’s interesting to see how the genre has evolved. I did enjoy the woven story of murder and Dick and Perry.
I really struggled to read this one. The first time and this time. The way the story is woven is boring, I said it. The prose is LONG, like page long paragraphs, making it tedious and dense. The glaring bias Capote had to Perry makes me question many of the “facts.” I also really wish someone would have truly found the “truth” of who did what.
I do enjoy that this is a pioneer in the true crime genre. It’s interesting to see how the genre has evolved. I did enjoy the woven story of murder and Dick and Perry.