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Columbine by Dave Cullen

4 reviews

brookey8888's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This is such a hard book to review. It’s very graphic so be warned. It goes into so much detail and it’s so disturbing to read. I would recommend this book if you want to learn more about it and the misconceptions about this and all the coverups and things of that nature that happened during this time. I did appreciate learning about the victims and their lives before and after. I do have to say when reading this how I was thinking that nothing really has changed to make these less common, which is just so awful. I did read this when I was in middle school( the author spoke at my school), it was good to read this with an adult brain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Child death, Gore, Murder, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Violence, Grief, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Blood, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Sexism, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry

mondovertigo's review

dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Homophobia, and Racism

emzorzin3d's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

You would struggle to find a more comprehensive breakdown of the events of the Columbine tragedy as well as the stories of everyone involved both before and after it happened.
Plenty of time is given to the victims to tell their stories as well as the student body at large. These are given equal time to the facts of the day as well as the backgrounds of the two boys responsible.
The author does his best to correct the mistakes of misinformation, informing us why the story of Columbine and the shooters might not be what we had all assumed.
Cullen has to be given credit here for avoiding sensationlistic writing and instead breaking down the whole thing in a straightforward way. Because the truth is that the facts are astonishing on their own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Suicide attempt, and Sexism

jbellomy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Very well researched and comprehensive painting of the massacre and its aftermath. My main complaint is that Cullen uses teenage slang — a lot — when not quoting. Seemed in poor taste for journalism and took me out of the story. I also didn't like the use of dual narratives (one before, following the killers, and one after, following the survivors and town). It really undercut the ideal that the town didn't want to be defined by the attack. I don't know how else to make the story feel propulsive, but it seemed irresponsible to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Gore, Grief, and Sexism