A review by alylentz
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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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