Really interesting and extremely well-researched read, if one that dragged very occasionally in places. I dunno, there's something slightly unsavoury in rating this for entertainment value, given that the book only exists because an innocent family died horrible, violent deaths. And yet it is compelling, albeit not in a shock-horror way, as Capote carefully and thoughtfully traces the perpetration and investigation of the crime, and gives a memorable, well-rounded portrait of the killers. I don't know that I'd call it a sympathetic portrait exactly (it was the victims who got that, and deservedly so), but it seems that the two murderers did raise sympathy of a sort in a small number of individuals. Can't say that they particularly raised any in me though.