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Columbine by Dave Cullen
4.0

This was an incredibly detailed and fascinating book explain exactly what happened at Columbine and the aftermath. It's slow and not the easiest of reads, but I learned so much new information from this book, and important information at that. I'd highly recommend this if you're looking to understand what happened at Columbine as much as we can. But I don't think I'd recommend this to someone who's just casually interested.

My biggest critique was how awkward it felt within the story that he skipped over the library scene. If he didn't want to chronicle the shooting in the library to provoke copycats, that's fine (although strange since he covered their shootings outside the library and all their planning and thoughts), but I never felt like I had an understanding of who those victims were. I'm not sure most of them were more than mentions. Some of their parents were discussed later in the book, and I literally wouldn't know who their kid was.

But overall, this was incredibly worthwhile and insightful.