Hello readers! How is Capote going? For those reading about vampires, please note that there was a mixing among titles, but we are reading Truman Capote, maybe vampires for the next one...
So, for all that I know, I'm the one really behind this time, as I'm not reading THE BOOK.
And why is that? I mean, shame on me, but, I have some sort of excuse, I read "In Cold Blood" a few years ago... so I felt that I would read something else in the meanwhile... and I'm reading a bizarre African novel, difficult to read even in my native in Spanish...
So I would ask for your help in leading this conversation, I don't have all the details in my memory, so what should be discussing here? Take the lead!
I have also read "In Cold Blood" previously. However, it was too long ago and I read it too fast. Therefore, I am enjoying this second time, in which I am paying more attention to each detail and description. I didn't remember what a page-turner the book is.
ReplyDeleteAnswering to Rocio's question, for me, the most interesting thing of this first part is the tension of reading how the stories of the family and the criminals run in a parallel way, knowing that at one dramatic point they will clash, but not knowing exactly when... Even if we know it is going to happen, I found myself hoping something will occur that will prevent the criminals to get to the house, or the family members to be there... It doesn't make sense, but I remember having the same feeling when reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold".
The description of the characters is great, as great as dramatic. It is heartbreaking to be reading about the family members and their aspirations, dreams, plans... And knowing that everything will be finished for them in such nonsense, brutal, unfair way...
And then, very fast, it happens, and the first chapter ends with the discovery of the dead bodies.
I can't believe this crime really happened! You know the result but it doesn't matter, you are hooked. The murders finally take place, but now you need to know why.
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderfully written, the style is so different to any other thriller but even today it is fresh, and it's not technically a thriller it's non-fiction, isn't it? We'll see, but the key could be that Capote makes the story his own.
What bothers me in this first chapter is how morbid it is when the author repeats that that's the last thing they'll do, say or wear before the fatal event...