Columbine
A Nonfiction, History, Psychology book. I dont want anyone else to understand it, because you only understand it when you have...
EXPANDED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of...
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- Pages: 443 pages
- ISBN: 9780446546928 / 446546925
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Human nature was smothered by society; healthy instincts were smothered by laws. They were training us to be assembly-line robots; that's why they lined the school desks up in rows and trained kids to respond to opening and closing bells. The monotonous human assembly line squelched the life out of individual experience. Dave Cullen, Columbine turned the corner, and Frank saw bloody smears on the carpet. He knew Dave Sanders had gone down there. He had not anticipated the stains. You could see the knuckle prints, he said. He actually was on all fours and there were his knuckle printshe was struggling. It tore me up. A trail of blood traced Daves path around the corner and down the hall. Detectives led Frank DeAngelis to Science Room 3. Nothing had been disturbed. They took me into where Dave died, Frank recalled. And there were sweatshirts there full of blood. That got to me. In the science... World. Dave Cullen, Columbine
I had originally given this book 4 stars, but I just upped it to 5 because this book has really stayed with me. It's one of the most disturbing books--if not THE most disturbing book--I've ever read, but it's also totally excellent--the research, the reporting, the writing, the storytelling. It was an amazing read and I learned a lot.... Review to come. I recently read Sue Klebold's A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy, which is outstanding, so I thought it best to listen to a definitive account of not only what happened at Columbine but also objective analyses of the two shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Sue made some assertions about Eric Harris and her...
