In Cold Blood

Jumped into a new book today, a big departure from my most recent reads, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.  Having seen Capote interviewed many times on television a long time ago, I was really surprised by this type of book.  I read Breakfast at Tiffany’s awhile back and did not expect this psychological murder mystery.  When listening to Capote, I always thought of him as a modern day (NYU grad) Perez Hilton.  (As a side note, one of the staffers at NYU is very close friends with Perez.  Omar was in a MTV video clip sharing his high school experience with Hilton.  Hilton hosted our NYU Ultra Violet Live.  A disaster!  His f’ bombs and lack of humor took away from the show.  Sorry Truman, didn’t mean to connect you with another sharp tongued, but low brow comparison.)

Back to the book…

In reading some of the historical perspectives of the book interesting to note how this book is viewed as opening the flood gates for future psychological murder books.  Capote’s characters were very well developed as the author took great pride in investigating the real version of the story.  Capote went to Kansas to learn as much as he could about the killers and their plot to kill the helpless Clutter family.  An interesting fact about the background of the book, Capote brought Harper Lee, yes the same Harper Lee who penned To Kill a Mockingbird  (Side note, great read of To Kill a Mockingbird.  All should read it at least twice, which I have done.  The movie isn’t too bad either.), to Kansas.  Capote’s book started out as a series in the New Yorker before edited into a book.  The brutal murders and the underlying reasons Smith may have taken the challenge and show himself more the aggressor than his partner Hickcok.  An engaging read that captures a very disturbing real life murder of a farming family.