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Columbine Review

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If you want to get as clear of a picture as you can to understand this tragedy. This book is definitely worth the money. This book is upsetting to read. Those two kids were pretty disgusting. Best points about the book? Enough time has gone by for most of the myths to be shown as such. The FBI Psychologist who evaluated them as best as he could. I view all Psychologists/Psychiatrists w/great suspicion. I often find them nuttier than their patients. I found most of this Psychologist's points to be reasonable. The multiple points of view, & multiple stories are very helpful in understanding as much as we can about this shooting/almost major bombing, & its impact.

The main reason I only gave four out of five stars? In the preface. The Author states how he'll clearly show which data are actual quotes. Which are educated guesses by mental health professionals. Finally, which are HIS summations based on the facts. In his latter chapters, those lines are very hazy. I think it was the last chapter where this was the worst. He states points of view/mind-sets/motivations of the shooters. He attempts to support those conclusions w/the valid Psych evaluations made. They just don't jibe. It appears the Author went to putting his interpretations on the events to the forefront. That's too bad, because he loses credibility by doing so. He lost me as a reader towards the end because of it. To be honest, I was already pretty disgusted by the content @that point, anyway. I went into reading this to try & understand what went wrong w/these kids. IMHO, what went wrong w/Eric, was that he was born. I'd agree that he was a psychopath. Dylan? Although the most assessable data exists on him, & paints a reasonably clear case for his motivations. It still wasn't clear enough for me. He went back & forth between drawing hearts, & then rage-filled carnage. A part of me wanted to see two decent kids who went wrong due to external factors. Based on evidence presented in this book. That's not possible. Dylan, maybe w/more facts, could be forgiven on some level. Eric was w/o redemption. I'm glad I'm through reading this book. It makes me want to bring those two back to life. So I can break every bone in their punk, rich-kid bodies... Just as a pedophile should instinctively know that something is very wrong w/them. These two kids should have realized that THEY were the problem, not basically everyone they had ever met. They attacked, & wanted to kill people from every strata/class/whatever of life. It's just repugnant.

Columbine Feature

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Columbine Overview

On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing shooting defined a new era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine."

When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of a school window -- the whole world was watching him. Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal.

The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, he gives the first complete account of the Columbine tragedy.

In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups, it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.

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Customer Reviews

eerie - Leslie L. Pauling - Cypress,Ca. USA
I had always wondered what those boys were really doing in their own homes and how their parents missed the signs and symbols that had to be flying around the homes. Now I see how they got away with all of their actions leading up to that fateful day. I think this was a great indepth look at the boys personalities, and cleared up alot of media mistakes.

The Complexity of Columbine - M. A. Ramos - Florida USA
Mr. Cullen is a journalist that uses eyewitness testimony, police reports, and the killers' own writings to dispel myths that the Columbine shooters were bullied, isolated kids who targeted victims. The author worked with what was available and informs us that some information has still not been released by the authorities. In this book the author contends that Argues Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had friends, good grades and detailed plans to blow up the school with no intention of surviving. He discusses the murder's psychological assessments. Each section of the book has a notes section where the author documents all of his sources in detail. The writing is concise and because of the subject matter of this investigation there is violence and strong language.

A must read - DB - NYC
Cullen's book is by turns hair-raising, infuriating and nauseating. It's a must read for its sad relevancy - not just in the hope that we might be able to prevent more events like Columbine, but also as an indictment of the incompetence of the news media that spreads unchecked lies with impunity. What news outlet can we really trust? Sad to say that today perhaps McClatchy is the only news service with integrity. Everyone else - from the Left and the Right - just bows to their corporate sponsors. From Judith Miller's supremely damaging "weapons of mass destruction" lies in the New York Times to MSNBC's and Fox' news delivered by actors like Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly - where does one even begin to look for the truth? When news anchors on 24 hour news networks tell guests that they can't finish telling their story or finish their point because they've "run out of time" - what are they selling and what are we buying? It's certainly not the news. It's all about ratings and sales figures - at any cost. The damage inflicted on the public is irrelevant.

Columbine 101 - roxychick105 -
It was good but it took way too long to send i recieved the product a month later.

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