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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

56 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

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gun violence, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pedophilia and Rape

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

lumigues's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kate001's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Suicide and Car accident

hazeld's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Murder

ibby2's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

zoe_271's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This was my first foray into true crime, and Capote's unravelling of the murders was masterful. I loved how he kept me on the edge of my seat, still guessing at the details of what happened even though the broad strokes of the plot were obvious. He had me empathising with all the characters in ways I was uncomfortable with, at the same time as fleshing out the town of Holcomb in such a way that it felt like a major character, though more so in the first half of the novel. The last section debated the morality of the death penalty, a topic I thought I had a set view on, in a deeper way than I've explored before.

The standout has to be Capote's depiction of Perry, a man who I despised yet related to, a contradiction unto himself. On doing some background reading after I finished In Cold Blood, I learned that Capote had grown close to both perpetrators while they were in prison, interviewing them for his research, and that sympathy that he felt towards Perry in particular shone through the text. Yet while Capote explains how Perry is the way he is, how he ended up in such circumstances, he does not justify it. Questions are raised - are all lives worth the same? What is a fair trial, for a man who freely deemed himself judge, jury, and executioner?

This book made me sad. True crime is probably not a genre I'll delve into much more, because I found myself affected in a way that I just didn't enjoy, which is potentially why I'll not be giving this as high a rating as others might. However, that heart-wrenching feeling drawn out of me is nothing but a compliment to Capote's writing, and this is certainly a book that will leave a lasting impression on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts

sarah_zaffiro's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Car accident