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.
Just finished it about 2 weeks ago. What a terrifying and enthralling read. For me it was the constant teasing between how psychopathic Perry and Dick were and how normal their ambitions could be at the same time. I’m still having trouble figuring out who the worse of the two is, though I’m sure the general consensus would be Perry based on his actual actions. I would lean toward Dick. He’s manipulative, calculating and really had no environmental reason to explain his behavior. A thoroughbred monster.
Yeah the book is a disturbing masterpiece. There’s a whole study of killers who work in pairs like that, and it’s not usually that one of the other is worse but that the dynamic between the two of them accounts for this, especially if they are young. There’s a Hitchcock movie that explores this too (Rope) but real life famous examples are the boys that tortured and killed James Bulger. See Heavenly Creatures also which is a true story but also Peter Jacksons best film imo though it fucking haunts me.
People are messed up.