blood chilled by cold blood

In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote

I was prepared for this book. I had watched the movie "Capote" and had anticipated accurately how it would have been written. Still i was captured by the mesmerizing stories, the excellent writing and the hidden yet unmistakable emphathy that the author had shown to the victims AND the criminals.

Capote gave a vivid illustration of the complexity of human nature. There are contradictory forces at work among individuals and within one; there are infinite varieties and depth of thoughts, impulses and emotions; and there exists the origin of virture, evil and everything in between.... One could not help but feel a sense of desperation and profound sadness that each individual is bound to become what he is made of, only some are luckier and others less so.