Comments on: Best Books of the Year?

By: Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:08:46 +0000

(BTW, GM Davis is publisher of the small Denver press that put out the book he’s pimping there. He seems to have a google alert on my name, and posts the exact same thing every time I’m mentioned. You might be getting one from my favorite conspirarcy theorist soon, too, though he seems to have tired of his mission. Lucky you.)

Feel free to delete this comment if you like, once you have the info.

By: Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:07:56 +0000

Hi Aaron. I like the list, though I’m biased, being on it.

There are several on the list I still want to check out, especially The Lost City of Z. I read the opening to Age of Wonder and loved it, hope to come back to it soon.

Thanks for the mention of my book, Columbine.

By: aaron cohen

aaron cohen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:12:31 +0000

It seems like you’re commenting on one of the 13 books on this list, rather than commenting on the point of the post that 13 books were mentioned on all 3 best of the year lists. This would have made more sense if you had written an introduction. Thanks for the comment, I suppose.

By: gm davis

gm davis — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:34:59 +0000

Cullen , who first reported on the story for the online magazine Salon, acknowledges in the book’s source notes that thoughts he attributes to Klebold and Harris are conjecture gleaned from the record the pair left behind.

Jeff Kass takes a more straightforward approach in “Columbine: A True Crime Story,” working backward from the events of the fateful day.
The Denver Post

Mr. Cullen insists that the killers enjoyed “far more friends than the average adolescent,” with Harris in particular being a regular Casanova who “on the ultimate high school scorecard . . . outscored much of the football team.” The author’s footnotes do not reveal how he knows this; when I asked him about it while preparing this review, Mr. Cullen said he did not necessarily mean to imply that Harris was sexually active. But what else would such words mean?

“Eric and Dylan never had any girlfriends,” the more sober Mr. Kass writes, and were “probably virgins upon death.”
Wall Street Journal