I've just read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
The film Capote was what caught my interest, and I'm always looking for something different to broaden my horizons. It was pretty hard for me to get into, with a very slow start and his prose showing a lot of evidence to his time as a reporter for the New Yorker. He crams sentences with lots of details, relying a lot on bracketing additional information into the sentences (although the info he decides to bracket is usually quite long and then when the brackets close you've lost where the original sentence was going) sometimes leading you to backtrack. See what I did there?
But once the 'story' gets going, it's much more enjoyable, unputdownable in fact. He recreated a genre with this book, reporting actual events but writing of them in a way that makes the book feel like a work of fiction... an actual story rather than a list of dates and happenings.
His attitude towards the events, the characters, and the setting is quite unbiased, leaving you the reader to form your own conclusions in the murder of the Clutter family in November of 1959. Also, what surprised me, after seeing the film Capote where it documents his writing of In Cold Blood, he never breaks the forth wall by mentioning his investigation into the case or the attachment he had towards the two killers.
Great book. Give it a try but be forgiving for the first 60 pages; after that, enjoy the ride.
9/10
