I’ve always heard about this book. May it be a movie, show or someone pretentious saying oh you like true crime and haven’t read this?

I just finished it at this moment and wow one of the best books I have read. The introduction of Holcomb. The personalities of the Clutter family and everything to set it all up was a beautiful setting.

I was sort of dissatisfied we knew about Perry and Hicock in the beginning. I was expecting a police who done it. But yet it was interesting to see what they got up to after they ran away. Their adventures and the asking of sympathy of Perry’s upbringing.

The part of the book that hit me most and kept me reading into the middle of the night was Perry’s confession. What happened on his account we got to imagine the clutter family’s final moments. Perry knowing Dick snitched.

It was a bittersweet ending with the final par. With the different death row inmates. How they grew fond of Andrew.

Dewey walking that cemetery and meeting Susan as those 6 years passed. All you heard was the wind cried. Wow. What a closure.

Any other book Recs like this and killers of the flower moon?! This might be my new favorite genre.

  • Medical-Good2816@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I teach this book. It’s the details. The everyday life that is captured in the book up until the murders that gets me. Like how the neighbor girl was going to learn how to make a cherry pie. How Mr. Clutter paid for everything in checks, etc. In case OP didn’t read the dedication page, Capote’s childhood friend, (Nell) Harper Lee, helped with researching the book. She went on to write To Kill a Mockingbird. Capote is the basis of Dill. Capote has been credited as creating the true crime novel genre.