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Columbine

door Dave Cullen

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Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
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    In koelen bloede door Truman Capote (Anonieme gebruiker)
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    De duivel in de witte stad: moord, magie en waanzin op de wereldtentoonstelling die Amerika veranderde door Erik Larson (DaveCullen)
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    We moeten het even over Kevin hebben door Lionel Shriver (GCPLreader)
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    Columbine: A True Crime Story, a victim, the killers and the nation's search for answers door Jeff Kass (Anonieme gebruiker)
  5. 40
    Negentien minuten door Jodi Picoult (jhedlund)
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    Helter Skelter door Vincent Bugliosi (kathleen.morrow)
    kathleen.morrow: Both are well-written, intriguing (and chilling) investigations of atrocious crimes. Also, both challenge common assumptions about the crimes they narrate.
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    Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy door Donald B. Kraybill (alcottacre)
    alcottacre: Another school shooting, in the wake of Columbine, and the story of how it was handled by the Amish community
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    Het lied van de beul door Norman Mailer (Anonieme gebruiker)
  9. 20
    No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine door Brooks Brown (profilerSR)
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    Forgiveness: A Legacy of the West Nickel Mines Amish School door John L. Ruth (bertilak)
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    Newtown: An American Tragedy door Matthew Lysiak (meggyweg)
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    Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed door Kathy Marks (meggyweg)
    meggyweg: Both solid works of journalism telling the full story of two very terrible and often misunderstood crimes.
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    102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers door Jim Dwyer (JechtShot)
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I think I decided to read this book because it offered an answer as to why two teenage boys decided to attack their school with guns and bombs. I know it's really not good for me to get caught up in gruesome details (Jeff said I shouldn't read it), but the why weighed on my mind, even ten years after the event. So this book came out with its haunting cover and I read it and now I do feel like I understand better why they did it.

Am I happy I read it? Not really. But it was very gripping and thorough. It debunked a lot of myths about the Columbine massacre, and was easy to understand even though it jumped around in time a lot. I wouldn't recommend it unless you're sincerely interested in tragedy and/or being depressed. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Great book. Sad but I am glad I read it. I think this is an important book. I really goes into what is and isn't true about one of the greatest American tragedies.

I didn't think i would be able to read it all the way trough without taking a break. This wasn't true. The author lays out the scope and sequence very well. I found myself compelled to keep reading. ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
I say this not having finished the book. It's a really well researched account, but I just couldn't keep reading about these sad, sad people. I want to finish it though, I do. ( )
  nogomu | Oct 19, 2023 |
David Cullen’s non-fiction Columbine is something of a paragon in the true crime / non-fiction about real life tragedies world, a highly regarded example of how to write about a sensitive and terrible topic with empathy and journalistic precision. And after reading it I can well understand why, Cullen’s prose is immediate and urgent without being sensational it’s informative and meticulous without losing its narrative thread in the minutiae.

First, a note about the event itself. I took an active shooter training recently for work and the speaker told us to think back to a time before we were aware of threats like school shooters, to a time before we identified multiple exits upon entering somewhere new. For me that time never existed, or did sometime before I could remember it. I recall being in elementary school and hearing all about Columbine over and over again. I was always aware that my school could be a site of danger and devastation. This awareness only heightened over the years for obvious reasons.
But despite hearing about the event as a child and teen, I realized I knew little of the concrete facts of what happened. This struck me as odd so I read David Cullen’s book. Columbine was difficult to read; it certainly wasn’t fun or what I would call enjoyable. But the author did what he set out to do, his goal in writing, as far as I could tell, was to tell the complete story of the Columbine shooting, from planning, to the day itself, to the fallout and impact on individuals, families, and the nation. This aim was ambitious but it was (in my opinion) achieved. I wish all non-fiction titles were as comprehensive, as in depth, as this book was. The tragedy itself is given appropriate weight, but the author doesn’t neglect the aftershocks of the event, the way it changed the Columbine community and the nation, the way it has been remembered and misremembered ever since it happened. Indeed, Cullen takes care to point out numerous myths that surround the shooting, noting their origin and providing evidence debunking them. The killers idolized Marilyn Manson, their murder spree was the result of bullying, they targeted an evangelical Christian girl and murdered her when she professed her faith, all of these were things I had taken for fact but in reality are all incorrect, rumors with a long half-life.

This kind of journalistic rigor is what set this book apart for me. Far more than just a catalog of atrocities, Columbine places the events of the shooting in proper context while also making sense of the legacy this tragedy had on our country.
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1 stem Autolycus21 | Oct 10, 2023 |
In incredible work of detail and insight. The myths revealed and the truest stories told. I truly think every parent should read this book. It was disturbing, yes but important. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
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