In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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Author: Truman CapoteEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-05
ISBN: 0375507906
Number of pages: 343
Publisher: Random House
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- ISBN13: 9780375507908
- Condition: NEW
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Book Reviews of In Cold Blood
Book Review: Each One Needed the Other
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I add that 450 other reviewers have already written? This book reminded me of the true crime book entitled Judgment Ridge in which two teen-age boys murdered two Dartmouth professors. Each one needed the other in order to carry out the dastardly dark deed. The same is true in the book In Cold Blood. I watched the movie once, then read the book, and watched the movie once more. Usually when you watch a movie and then read the book of the same story significant differences are noticeable. That is not the case here. I found that both the book and movie follow each other very closely. As is the situation with murder cases of this sort there are no winners. Six people are needlessly dead which includes the murderers, when their sure-fire scheme to get rich goes awry. It would be profitable if others who are contemplating foolproof, in their minds, schemes could learn from cases such as this the book will have served its purpose.
Summary of In Cold Blood
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.
In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
In Cold Blood was a groundbreaking work when released in 1966. With it, author Truman Capote contributed to a style of writing in which the reporter gets so far inside the subject, becomes so familiar, that he projects events and conversations as if he were really there. The style has probably never been accomplished better than in this book. Capote combined painstaking research with a narrative feel to produce one of the most spellbinding stories ever put on the page. Two two-time losers living in a lonely house in western Kansas are out to make the heist of their life, but when things don't go as planned, the robbery turns ugly. From there, the book is a real-life look into murder, prison, and the criminal mind.
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