Reviews tagging 'Death'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

104 reviews

lugl's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

consolidated my ideas of how inherently morbid true crime is... I feel bad saying I liked it...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

katie0528's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

3.75

A classic true crime novel about the mass murder of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959. Capote details the family's last night alive up until the execution of their murderers. This reads much more like a journalistic piece, with interviews from everyone to the police to the townspeople to the killers themselves. The text can be a little dry at times but it's classic for any true crime fan

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

madeline_p4's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape

animaniac17's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Rape and Violence

cyberhavok's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Pedophilia

awalsh1212001's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and War

abicaro17's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

s__tu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault

boomwormbrittany's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

In Cold Blood is considered one of the firs true crime books written and is about the murder of four members of the Clutter family in the 1950's and the subsequent investigation to bring justice for them.
I had heard of Truman Capote before and this book was mentioned in the acknowledgements of Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. I could see how this book is a huge inspiration for Larson and the narrative voice he uses when telling this story.
Truman Capote's writing in this was truly very interesting to read. Rather than taking a step back view of the murders and investigation, he puts you in the head of the people who were victims before their murder, the investigators trying to solve the murder and the murderers themselves. It lends a very human element to the story while also giving crucial background not only to the people who were living this but also the time period and place that these murders took place. I thought he handled the deaths of these individuals with a lot of tact and it was clear he was trying lay out the facts of these murders rather than focusing on the gruesome nature of the crime.
I thought this was a really interesting book to read and if you do engage in true crime content, this would be a good book to pick up and see where the genre really started.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

nicoleisalwaysreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment