Real life??

I have just started reading the book because I have been passed out on pain killers for the past few days. Within the first few pages I am just waiting for the real story to start. You get all these little details that seem some what unimportant. They are part of literature though. They help you get a picture in your head of the setting (the place and its surroundings) and what the characters look like and act like. I want the action though. I want to know the who, what, when, where, how, and why of the story. I would like to add more to this post about the combination between "real life" and literature in this book later after I have read more now that I am slowly getting off of the pain killers.
Okay, so I finally finished the book and it was almost disturbing to me with the murders and wondering how people can kill others all for $40, or even for $10,000 it seems a little too much. I think that there is a big difference between what we read in literature and what we read in real life. In real life we read these articles that normally don't take up too much room in the news paper and they give us the main details that will spark our interests. For the most part they are unbiased, but if they are biased at all it is for the victim. All the great details of the victim's life is written up and posted all over the news and the articles. In Literature the author has the opportunity to get to know the criminals and they can try to understand their story. Some of the time, like in In Cold Blood, the author will connect with a criminal and try to make their readers feel sympathetic towards him. For me, I felt sorry for Perry after reading about his life and seeing how it had affected him. It was sad, but at the same time he still knew right from wrong and had a lot of time to think about what was going on and what he was going to be doing. I felt like what Dick said... It has to do with revenge. Perry and Dick got what they deserved.