In Cold Blood

“The original non-fiction book” is definitely engaging; if not a bit drawn out. I'm obviously late to the game in reading this, but I'm glad I did. Getting a non-fiction story from 3 different points of view sucks you in like no other true story I've ever read. You go on each person's journey as the pieces of this murderous adventure are put together and getting to know them as intimately as you do puts you right in the middle of their lives and it's done very well thanks for fantastic story writing. So fantastic, in fact, that it's hard to not believe that a lot of the dialogue is hear-say and otherwise made up; based on events gleamed from interviews and expanded upon with prose.

This book is longer than it needs to be. Some parts definitely could have been cut, such as all the legalese junk and cellmate backstory, but as pure telling of a real-life story, I can see why a lot of people consider this a modern classic and why Truman Capote was made famous. I can see this being required reading in highschools.