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Feels horrible to say it, but I couldn't put this book down. Cullen paints a compelling and at times even compassionate portrait of the Columbine killers, dispelling myths and holding the right people accountable while having mercy on the secondary victims like the killers' families, who themselves had little way to see the tragedy coming and took such a beating in the public eye.
It's hard to look at troubled kids because so many of us were a stone's throw from where Dylan and Eric wound up at least a few times... but Dave Cullen makes you look close for what tipped them over the edge, and what our collective responsibility is to make sure it doesn't happen within our own communities. But he also brings up the terrifying possibility that we can't stop it, that it's a cultural phenominon as set as tabloids and talk-television, and it'll take a major shift in values and behavior to remove the motives that drove these teens to kill.
Not a very satisfying ending, but I suppose that's how it went in life too. I wouldn't have wanted to wait another ten years for all of the documents to be released: we all needed answers on this, and Dave Cullen did some absolutely excellent journalistic work to deliver what he could of them.
It's hard to look at troubled kids because so many of us were a stone's throw from where Dylan and Eric wound up at least a few times... but Dave Cullen makes you look close for what tipped them over the edge, and what our collective responsibility is to make sure it doesn't happen within our own communities. But he also brings up the terrifying possibility that we can't stop it, that it's a cultural phenominon as set as tabloids and talk-television, and it'll take a major shift in values and behavior to remove the motives that drove these teens to kill.
Not a very satisfying ending, but I suppose that's how it went in life too. I wouldn't have wanted to wait another ten years for all of the documents to be released: we all needed answers on this, and Dave Cullen did some absolutely excellent journalistic work to deliver what he could of them.