Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

2017 • 416 pages

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I think I'm ready to give up on narrative non-fiction.

I've read a few acclaimed books with this structure, such as The Lost City Of Z (also by Grann) and The Devil In The White City, and they just haven't been for me. I find the subject matter really interesting, but the storytelling just puts me off.

There's something about the suspension of disbelief when true-life scenes are described in detail combined with the book usually covering so many things that happened in real life that may or may not be interesting. With movies about real life events I immediately accept that it is fictionalized to some degree and is edited down so that each moment is crucial to the story.

Anyways, there's definitely an interesting and harrowing bit of history at the core here and I'm curious to see what Scorcese does with this for his film.

September 23, 2021