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Dave Cullen wrote a book for many that will be taken as a book that depicts everything that happened involving Columbine, and how it came to be. It will be taken as pure fact and entirely true by most who haven't seen or heard about more of this tragedy than what a normal viewer or reader has seen or heard. Maybe as a high school student, my views on this book are different but I thought the book itself was great. The thing that frustrates me was that Cullen tried to explain everything clearly and easily with one answer for everything when there was more than one problem. After reading the book, and many of the reviews others have written I am stuck on what to say, yes Cullen made many mistakes in his grammatical side of this story, and yes Cullen left out some parts of what happened but in total Cullen has made so much clear, that wasn't clear before. It makes me wonder though, why some people feel like critiquing a book about its grammar and language when the message the writer is writing about is so strong and powerful. Many reviews have said that the book saddened them and made them wonder why things like this could happen, or that it scared them and made them hate what happened, but many other reviews said he lied about things, or didn't tell the whole truth. I can see both sides of these reviews, but I think we should be looking more at the factors Cullen was aiming to connect with. The problem with many of the reviews saying that Cullen missed parts of the story or over simplified, was that he had too when writing this story. So much of what really happened is still unknown, whether still kept secret, or not remembered because of time, and it will never get better. So much of what happened, happened so long ago that we may not be able to find out the truth, and the only truths left to find out, will never be known because the only two that know what really happened, were the cause of this tragedy and are both dead. This tragedy had so many aspects to it that Cullen had to simplify it and had to make it readable and understandable without, outright lying. Bullying was a big aspect of the tragedy and was left out. Maybe the bullying was left out because Cullen didn't have enough information, or not enough sources to help him with that, that he felt it was easier to leave out. Overall though, the book was an outstanding depiction of what happened, the most clear and overall public description of what really happened. The book is the greatest description of this event available to the public ever made and has helped me see the whole tragedy as a whole.Get more detail about Columbine.