In Cold Blood

intriguing crime story

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10 months ago

Got me interested by the time I got to the discoveries of the murders(1/4 way into book)...story of a couple of degenerates who senselessly murder an entire family for a mere $50.00 cash, their rebellious cross-country journey and their inevitable demise at the gallows.

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Gripping!

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14 months ago

This is a true story about the 1959 murders of Herb Clutter, a wealthy farmer in Holcomb, Kansas; his wife, Bonnie; his daughter, Nancy; and his son Kenyon by two ex-cons and would-be robbers - Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. Capote spent six years of his life on this book and it shows. It's compelling, engaging, great prose and a real page-turner. Capote, with this novel, created a new genre of writing -- literary journalism. It reads like a mystery novel with "clues" and "build-ups" that… + read more

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Greatest Novel Ever!

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2 years ago

I first time heard about this book was after reading a review about the movie Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Because of its acclaim I decided to watch the movie myself. I was immediately immersed into the movie, and I can totally understand why Hoffman won his academy award. Inspired to learn more, I decided to go straight to the source. I took out In Cold Blood from my local library. From the moment I read the first page, I knew this book was different from the rest. The way it was… + read more

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A Haunting Tale of Riveting Suspense

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4 years ago

Truman Capote was destined to do great things with his writing and ''In Cold Blood'' was not disappointing. He captured the global psyche with his character renderings, his surreal descriptions of the Kansas wheat fields and the faces he put to the monsters behind the horrible Clutter murders. If you want to read something that is out of the ordinary and completely encapsulating, then you should definitely read "In Cold Blood"

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Best in "non"-fiction

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4 years ago

Don't be turned off by the hype--this will exceed what you expect. Brilliant.

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A book for the ages.

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4 years ago

This is a truly great book. I read it actually after seeing the recent film 'Capote'. I had meant to read it for years but never did. It was SO hyped and highly praised that I really felt that there was no wayit could live it to the billing. Well, I was wrong. My fear was that it may have been ground-breaking at the time but no would seem not as good. That may actually be somewhat true but the book is written in simple prose with a straight factual narration and I really loved the book. I would… + read more

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Fantastically written

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4 years ago

Like many, the recent film Capote drew me to this book. My expectations were high, and were fulfilled as I completed the first chapter, and soon after, the entire book. Like all Truman Capote's novels, In Cold Blood was fantastically written. What stood out about this book is the creation of the genre that it is famous for: the non-fiction novel. Every character Capote writes of actually existed, and it is within the telling of this story that his talent is revealed. Everything, from the town… + read more

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IN COLD BLOOD

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4 years ago

Truman Capote's non-fiction book on a Kansas murder of a farm family has several aspects in it in which are excellent. It is of course very well written. However the aspect that I find amazing is that it is a true story. One's analysis of the book is not of a novel with fictional characters - a piece of imagination (although those can be quite interesting). The emotions one feels in reading are based on an event in the world that is quite important.

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A classic, not just of its genre but of all time

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4 years ago

When he wrote In Cold Blood Truman Capote set out to consciously change the world of literature. He succeeded in ways he never imagined. While his main goal - to spawn the nonfiction novel - resulted only in a handful of memorable books (the new journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe), the book gave birth to an industry of lurid true crime books, few as good as the original. Still, Capote's prose ( she was not spoiled but spared, led to suppose that life was a sequence of agreeable… + read more

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Breath taking and heart pounding

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8 years ago

“In Cold Blood,” by Truman Capote is a heart-shaking thriller that left me in a cold sweat. I am an addicted fan of murder mysteries, and I have read many novels of gruesome crimes. What I have never done was read a novel of such descriptive details and personal thoughts on such a horrific crime. Truman Capote invited us into the minds of not only the family that was murdered, friends of the victims and the detectives, but he brought us into the conscience of two cold-blooded murderers by the… + read more

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In Cold Blood

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9 years ago

Even though I knew right from the start who the killers were, I still look forward to reading the rest. I guess this was because it is really craftily constructed. I especially enjoyed the part how Capote, in order to describe Billy’s visit to the Clutter home, used Billy’s testimony to show him being there.
Also Capote leaves out the murder scene and later, when the killers finally confess, Capote simply includes their description of what happened. Capote leaves the details… + read more

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