A while ago, I went to a used booksale in Ma'ale Adumim and bought a whole pile of books for 1₪
each. In that pile was Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which I bought because it's very famous for being very good. It's taken me this long to start reading it, because it's famous enough that I know In Cold Blood is a true-crime account of a disturbing multiple murder. Have to be in the right mood to read that one.
Well, I finally found a mood where I wanted to read In Cold Blood and wouldn't be overwhelmed by it, and I see why it's so famous for being so good. Because it is. So good.
After having finally opened the book, I also now know why it was donated to a used-book sale: this particular copy of In Cold Blood was withdrawn from the Beit Shemesh Children's Library. I should think so! I only hope that the story of its withdrawal is amusing rather than horrifying.
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