COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

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COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

Dave Cullen bravely took on what might be thought of as yet just another journalist trying to cash in on the horrific story of the massacre at Columbine School. He did this with clearly immense amounts of research and time in order to set straight all the rumors and give a factual account that painfully at times reads like a novel…such as IN COLD BLOOD, except we all know that this is not fiction. What most of us, including myself, did not know was the facts of what occurred that day at Columbine.

Don’t we already know about the loners, the Trench Coat Mafia boys, who were bullied until they had enough and blew away those people at that school? Don’t we know about the parents who never cared or saw this coming from their own sons? Don’t we know of the girl who told them she believed in God or the jocks who had bullied them and so were all killed? Don’t we know about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris already?

No, we don’t! I didn’t and reading the painful but so well written account by Dave Cullen opened my eyes as it also tore at my heart. The book is so well researched after 10 years that nothing is left to chance or to guess at. The book tells of the media and how it sensationalized much of what happened on that tragic day and how the two killers were very different from how they were portrayed.

COLUMBINE goes further as it also goes into the effects of this immense tragedy to tell about the survivors and how years later the shock still remains and what changes it brought about to so many lives. Dave Cullen writes a tough to read, but riveting non-fiction account that you will find hard to tear yourself away from. It also leaves one wondering how you could have gotten things to wrong for all these years when you thought you knew the truth about Columbine. April 20, 1999, will come alive once again in a horrific yet truthful fashion for the reader through the research, hard work, and skillful writing of Dave Cullen. Although a tough book to read, I am not sorry I did…and found it hard to put down.

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COLUMBINE As You May Never Have Known it Before by Dave Cullen

A New Birth of Freedom - The Visitor - Author - Robert G. Pielke

To have met Abraham Lincoln would have been, no doubt, a memorable experience for anyone. But if someone was to say to you, “I’ll be meeting Lincoln in 14 years from now,” it would be absurd, right? What if that person convinces you of the meeting, scheduled in the future yet involving a person of the past, is a reality and every word true? You would come to the conclusion the person must possess some form of time traveling capability. Hence “time traveling” becomes your conclusion, your belief, and of your own free will in choosing this only possible logical explanation. (That person never said he is a time traveler, did he?) This is the skillful bases of an unforgettable story, “A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor,” by the exquisitely talented author Robert G. Pielke.

Dr. Pielke loves history as revealed by his credentials studying the past. Furthermore, residing in the heart of Civil War battlegrounds, he accumulated a wealth of minutia about the history of the Union and Confederacy. His “Systematic” studies in Christianity can be superimposed onto other systems, such as war, plus his Ph.D. in Social Ethics states volumes of his understanding of people’s values and behavior. Add his love of science fiction, and you have a brilliant, out-of-the-box thinker, an author of immense capability to write penetrating thoughts, original and novel by all accounts.

The story begins with a train ride, when a passenger engages a conversation with a back-woods country lawyer, a politician a bit in debt, a humble man with a mind sharp and discerning. The man is Abe Lincoln. I have found this “lead” as one of the finest works of literary foreshadowing into a storyline of a creative journey of epic proportions. His writing is a flavorful mix of Rod Serling with Frank Herbert, a bit of H. G. Wells and a touch of Gene Roddenberry, plus some Carl Sagan, yet all uniquely Robert G. Pielke. The Visitor creates a showcase in which Pielke ostentatiously demonstrates his knowledge of the events and history circa 1863 and creates a “period piece of many eras” all at once. Meaning the past, the present and the future; combining the “three time frames’” into what can be described as a “Present situation of past events that occur in the future.”

All of this food for thought is topped with “Save the Earth” desperation – and I don’t mean anything Al Gore might preach to audiences, but wish to avoid telling in this review as not to distract from the surprise foundation of the multi-dimensional sub-plot. A book for historians, sci-fi enthusiasts, adventure story fans and people of all ages, “A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor” will resonate in your thoughts long after the book is finished and you think to yourself, “Wow.”

A New Birth of Freedom - The Visitor - Author - Robert G. Pielke