With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.Amazon.com Review
In Cold Blood was a groundbreaking work when released in 1966. With it, author Truman Capote contributed to a style of writin… More >>
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
I don’t know what Mr. Capote was thinking. Early in the book you know that they all die AND you know who did it. What’s up with that? So much for suspense! Truman Capote was very amusing in Murder by Death, though. And did you ever see Rich Little’s impersonation of Truman Capote as Tiny Tim in his rendition of A Christmas Carol? It was incredible! He does W.C. Fields as Scrooge. Truly an inspired performance. Rich Little is a true master. I’d like to read a book about his life.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read this book many years ago and remember it being very chilling!
I am the author of Domestic Abuse All Sides, Domestic Abuse Our Stories and Murder in New England & Closing the Circle.
Rating: 4 / 5
In Cold Blood was okay book . I didn’t really enjoy it very much for two reasons, one reason is because it was based on a true story and that those characters in the book were real and they didn’t get to live. The people who did it seemed smart for almost puliing it off but were stupid for the action that took place. the second reason is that I usually read books that our gross and bloody with a lot of Blood spilling and slaughter and have a lot of murder mystery but this book was nothing like that , it took placce in a small town in kansas and it talked about the family that was savagely slaughter, they were shot in the face. It was a trgic story.
Rating: 2 / 5
Truman Capote’s tiredless activism for gay civil & human rights is what prompted this literary investigation (or, using today’s buzzwords & catchy phrases, “creative nonfiction”). IN COLD BLOOD simply demonstrates the repression of male-to-male love in American society. Truman Capote’s simple point, if the two “killers had simply hopped in the sack together” their lives would have been more fulfilled, and the slaughter of this farm family would have been avoided entirely. This PILL is too big for most Americans to swallow; therefore, that’s why we learn nothing about why COLUMBINE & DC SNIPERS find fertile ground in our oppressive way of life. If you aren’t humanistic or intellectual who’s well on his way to becoming self-actualized, you have no moral right to read that which was never intended as literary entertainment, but rather as critical societal commentary. It never ceases to amaze me how repressed Americans accept oppression without second thought; yet are very defensive about the truth. And the truth, after all, is why we are born. Less than 10% of nonfiction literature is ever interpreted as the author intended it to be. We should learn to read critically; as though we were seeking to learn from the experience, as opposed to being self-righteously entertained as passive consumers and learners. Make Truman Capote proud, read with an open mind — one cannot be opnionated about something he knows nothing about. Enjoy life, and, walk away learning an invaluable lesson.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a bore! This book caught my attention not because of the Capote movie that came out but because of the rave reviews that were given here. I would have to say this is not a bad book but it’s about 12 hrs of my life I will never get back. If I had to do it again I would have rather read something else all together.
Rating: 2 / 5