Book Report: Columbine
I’m actually not sure where I was when Columbine “happened”, although I can remember seeing the footage on television and hearing a lot about the Trench Coat Mafia.
Dave Cullen’s Columbine is one of the best-written nonfiction books I’ve read in a long time period, and is an excellent treatment of the subject. With stories of what happened that day and during the aftermath, and pulling no punches about what went wrong, it’s a gripping read. As an event, the shooting is something that I guess really did require ten years before anyone could produce an analytical work without the shades of media slant.
Anyway, highly recommended.
Minor update: while I’m not sure I want to get into a big discussion, I find it pretty amazing that within a few days of posting this, I got a comment from someone urging me to check out a website to “get the real story.” I’d have to go back and look, but I believe that movement is referenced in the book, and it does discuss the “third killer” theories, and goes on to debunk (or at least explain) them by indicating that the killers started in heavy black jackets, and took them off during their spree. Also that there was an airconditioning repairman on the roof. Anyway, do what you like but the book is a useful read.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
You are still being lied to. Big time. If you want to find out what really happened at Columbine I suggest you read what the eyewitnesses had to say:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/columbineeight.php
July 30th, 2009 at 4:44 am
I also heard that there weren’t any Jews in the WTC on 9/11. And JFK was killed by Martian death rays shot down from stealth space ships.
When Columbine “happened,” I was in Fremont on the first day of my new job at the Argus. Later that week I was at one of the local high schools interviewing a group of “goths” to get their side of the story, or something.