"I wanted to read In Cold Blood, it's something I'd been hearing about for a long time but never really got around to reading; but I saw Capote when it came out, and I've read other stories by Truman Capote. I liked Breakfast at Tiffany's and some of his short stories. I really like that style, so it was just about time to read it I thought.
This book is about a murder that happened in Kansas. I identified with the story basically because I'm from a very small town in Minnesota, 1000 people when I grew up there, and this is a very small town in Kansas. So it's a very real place to me, and then you watch what the chaos that kind of erupts out of it. Each time you're introduced a new character, you're viewing life through that person, so you have extraordinary empathy for everyone involved, including the murderers. And he takes you inside these - the psyches of these people to a kind of disturbing degree.
In Cold Blood will affect you while you're reading it, but its worth it just in terms of literary style and knowing that a book can do that to you, I think is a really important experience to have. I would say I'd give this five out of five, which is 'cause it's a very complete novel. There isn't anything that I disliked about it. It's just an incredibly powerful thing."
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