September 4, 2006

September 4, 2006

While in Peru my nephew Jamie lent me the Truman Capote book, In Cold Blood. One of my goals is to read more books, especially classics. In Cold Blood made Capote famous and started a new genre, the non-fiction novel. The book separately follows a rural western Kansas farm family and two loser ex-cons until they ultimately cross paths in late 1959. The novel is very good especially knowing it is a true murder story. The most engaging part is its study of one of the murderers and his unfortunate upbringing. Tonight we rented the movie Truman Capote and was surprised to find that instead of being an autobiographical movie, it was about Capote’s research into the Kansas murders and his subsequent writing of the book, In Cold Blood. Reading the book first made this movie experience much more pleasurable.