I found this book tedious to read and yet hard to put down. Capote delivers incredible amounts of absolutely worthless information and that makes the book often difficult to read because I just don't care about the history of side characters. But there is still the voyeurism this book plays to and that made me go on, although I started skipping paragraphs later on. At the time this book apparently did something new, but when reading it now it just feels way too long. We usually get the same from a long article these days. In the end I thought it's an OK read.