In Cold Blood, Truman Capote: I admit it, I am interested in this book because of the movie. The movie was excellent, albeit in a straining-for-an-Oscar kind of way. But such as it is, my interest in reading this book was piqued. Capote also wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, a book of an entirely different stripe. An exercise in the theory that sometimes truth is as compelling as fiction, if you've seen the movie, you would know that Capote knew in his bones that this would be the greatest book of his career, and the experience of it affected him so much that he never published book in his lifetime. Strange to think that such a man of New York, flamboyantly gay and famously witty, could enter into the hearts and minds of a small town of Kansas. But then, truth is stranger than fiction.