Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

92 reviews

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

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

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

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

alexisvana's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.5

Fantastic, complicated, gruesome. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence

savduggan's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: Animal death and Sexual violence