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Title: Would have been 5 stars 40 years ago!
Review: After seeing both film versions of the writing of this book, I decided it was high time to read this classic. And it is a genuine classic, no question about that. If I had read it when it first came out, I'm sure I would have been stunned along with the rest of the country. Reading it now, after the genre has been taken to new heights by the likes of Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff) and others, it didn't pack quite the punch I expected. But it still packs a punch, no question about it. It still has the power to make you sick to your stomach as he takes you through the last hours of the Clutter family. There are moments of wonderful writing, as wonderful as writing can be about such disturbing events.
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