In Cold Blood

Posted by admin on March 2, 2010 under Blood | 5 Comments to Read

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In Cold Blood

  • ISBN13: 9780375507908
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.

In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.Amazon.com Review
In Cold Blood was a groundbreaking work when released in 1966. With it, author Truman Capote contributed to a style of writing in which the reporter gets so far inside the subject, becomes so familiar, that he projects events and conversations as if he were really there. The style has probably never been accomplished better than in this book. Capote combined painstaking research with a narrative feel to produce one of the most spellbinding stories ever put on the page. Two two-time losers living in a lonely house in western Kansas are out to make the heist of their life, but when things don’t go as planned, the robbery turns ugly. From there, the book is a real-life look into murder, prison, and the criminal mind.

$12.70-In Cold Blood

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  • Anonymous said,

    I don’t know what Mr. Capote was thinking. Early in the book you know that they all die AND you know who did it. What’s up with that? So much for suspense! Truman Capote was very amusing in Murder by Death, though. And did you ever see Rich Little’s impersonation of Truman Capote as Tiny Tim in his rendition of A Christmas Carol? It was incredible! He does W.C. Fields as Scrooge. Truly an inspired performance. Rich Little is a true master. I’d like to read a book about his life.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  • M. Webb said,

    I read this book many years ago and remember it being very chilling!

    I am the author of Domestic Abuse All Sides, Domestic Abuse Our Stories and Murder in New England & Closing the Circle.
    Rating: 4 / 5

  • MaDonna MayField said,

    In Cold Blood was okay book . I didn’t really enjoy it very much for two reasons, one reason is because it was based on a true story and that those characters in the book were real and they didn’t get to live. The people who did it seemed smart for almost puliing it off but were stupid for the action that took place. the second reason is that I usually read books that our gross and bloody with a lot of Blood spilling and slaughter and have a lot of murder mystery but this book was nothing like that , it took placce in a small town in kansas and it talked about the family that was savagely slaughter, they were shot in the face. It was a trgic story.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  • Bruno B. Bereshnoy said,

    Truman Capote’s tiredless activism for gay civil & human rights is what prompted this literary investigation (or, using today’s buzzwords & catchy phrases, “creative nonfiction”). IN COLD BLOOD simply demonstrates the repression of male-to-male love in American society. Truman Capote’s simple point, if the two “killers had simply hopped in the sack together” their lives would have been more fulfilled, and the slaughter of this farm family would have been avoided entirely. This PILL is too big for most Americans to swallow; therefore, that’s why we learn nothing about why COLUMBINE & DC SNIPERS find fertile ground in our oppressive way of life. If you aren’t humanistic or intellectual who’s well on his way to becoming self-actualized, you have no moral right to read that which was never intended as literary entertainment, but rather as critical societal commentary. It never ceases to amaze me how repressed Americans accept oppression without second thought; yet are very defensive about the truth. And the truth, after all, is why we are born. Less than 10% of nonfiction literature is ever interpreted as the author intended it to be. We should learn to read critically; as though we were seeking to learn from the experience, as opposed to being self-righteously entertained as passive consumers and learners. Make Truman Capote proud, read with an open mind — one cannot be opnionated about something he knows nothing about. Enjoy life, and, walk away learning an invaluable lesson.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  • Amazon PS3 Discussion Board Police said,

    This book is a bore! This book caught my attention not because of the Capote movie that came out but because of the rave reviews that were given here. I would have to say this is not a bad book but it’s about 12 hrs of my life I will never get back. If I had to do it again I would have rather read something else all together.
    Rating: 2 / 5

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