Reviews tagging 'Blood'

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

48 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

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

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

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

alylentz's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

I can see why this was impressive for its day and also birthed the true crime genre. However, I was somewhat disappointed given its reputation... the first half of this at least felt very slow to me. Personally, once the killers were brought in for questioning I was gripped by the writing, but the back and forth between the investigation and the killers on the run I found difficult to get through. I just think this gets pitched a lot as feeling like a novel, but in my opinion it's journalistic (even though there are obviously issues of embellishment) first and foremost--there are long sections dedicated to letters written and unshared testimony, etc. that make it feel less like fiction and more investigative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

solesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative slow-paced

1.0

if capote got out of perry’s ass for maybe 5 pages it might’ve gotten a higher reading

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, 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

sylviea28's review against another edition

mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Car accident, and Abandonment