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Loved the book and his work. After seeing the movie i wanted to read the book. Thought it was a great pair.
Dreadful excuses for human beings.In 1959 parolees Perry and Dick killed the Clutters on their Kansas farm. After wards he went into decline. The price is so good on Amazon that I can afford to do it.This last book I bought has no pictures. Truman Capote 9/30/24 to 8/25/84 authorHerb Clutter 48yrs old--Kenyon 15yrs old, Nancy 16 and Bonnie 45yrs old.-VictimsPerry Smith and Dick Hickcock-killers. I am sure that books I have had before have had photos. No mater what.it is an excellent book and made history.Truman was at the height of his writing powers at this time. I have a bio of Truman and there are KS photos in it.
Truman Capote spent 4 yrs gathering information on the case and would become close to the killers. I have had several copies over the years and have lent them out and never get them back so I keep buying it over and over again. Published 1965.The book is a must read and it is a must for your true crime library. Some say too close. The book sold 6 million copies.
Hanged. Drugs and Liquor. Truman says the book is the TRUE STORY but much of it has been fictionalized. It was brutal and would shock the nation. It is whispered that he had an affair with Perry.
This book starts slow and then gets better. There was very little said about Kenyon though and I felt that Mrs Clutter was unfairly characterized. The one thing that bothered me about this book was the representation of the family. The Killers overshadowed the victims.
I think he wanted money and publicity and should have respected the family's wishes more. I think she battled depression as many people do. I think she was probably a very sweet woman and he could have done a better job in listing more attributes rather than faults. All in all, it was a good book. Also I know that the family and town was against this book and so Capote was probably limited on information on them because many would not talk to him. I could not put it down and would stay up to early morning reading it.
Perhaps because it was written in 1965 and not as much was known about it, her illness was referred to as "spells" and it made her seem a tad bit mentally unstable. Even though it happened over 50 years ago, it was like you were there. Even though this book reads more like a Novel than a True Crime book, it did do something that most True Crime books do. I wanted to know more about the killers and I felt Capote did an excellent job of giving us insight into the killers.
The same is true in the book In Cold Blood. As is the situation with murder cases of this sort there are no winners. This book reminded me of the true crime book entitled Judgment Ridge in which two teen-age boys murdered two Dartmouth professors.
That is not the case here. Six people are needlessly dead which includes the murderers, when their sure-fire scheme to get rich goes awry. I found that both the book and movie follow each other very closely.
What can I add that 450 other reviewers have already written. Usually when you watch a movie and then read the book of the same story significant differences are noticeable. It would be profitable if others who are contemplating foolproof, in their minds, schemes could learn from cases such as this the book will have served its purpose.
Each one needed the other in order to carry out the dastardly dark deed. I watched the movie once, then read the book, and watched the movie once more.
The two ex-convicts of In Cold Blood were arrested. Same kind of chills. Terror beyond comprehension.
With the order, I received Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour and finished both books this week. What that innocent, terrorized farm family, living in a remote area suffered is beyond comprehension. I read In Cold Blood many years ago but ordered the paperback with my last book order (now reading True Crime genre much of my time).
That is what these two books have in common. That's where these two books differ. I suppose my review may not see the light of day here with the astronomical numbers of reviews, but I hope it does, because the top review here claims that no true crime book is as well written.
I agree, but the Natalie Wood story, read immediately after In Cold Blood came in a close second if not even matching or surpassing at intervals.In Cold Blood gave me chills, all these years later.
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