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A sangre fría by Truman Capote

88 reviews

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4.25


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dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

2.75

This took forever to finish because it was boring. Perry and Dick are two ex convicts who after going on parole, decide to attempt to rob a family in Kansas. The beginning of this book tells you that not only did that not happen but all four members of the Clutter family were brutally murdered. Capote goes on to describe the Clutters home life, Dick and Perrys childhoods/home lives, and their lives in and after prison. The reasons this didn't work for me are that the audience knew who killed the Clutters from the beginning, I didn't care about anyone in this book, and this book is so incredibly long for only being about one night of murder. This could have been a good short book but the length of this was so unnecessary. 

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adventurous dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0


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challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.5


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4.5

Fantastic, complicated, gruesome. 

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dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0


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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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5.0


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matcha_cat's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-paced

4.25


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marypaz13's review against another edition

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dark informative fast-paced

3.5

 Read for book club.

This is my first Capote book. I didn’t realize this was a literary nonfiction book, or a “non-fiction novel” (I guess they call it narrative non-fiction now).

It read like David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon.

The narrative portion was the conversation of the characters(?). I liked that background was provided about everyone directly involved. I feel like that created, or in my case attempted to, a sense of empathy beyond pity for the specific person.

The killers were psycho & sociopaths. I had to look at their picture.

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