I just finished this book and found it very well written and researched.

Many would ask, why would I want to read such a book? Jennifer Senior, in The New York Times Review of Books, answered this best:

COLUMBINE is an excellent work of media criticism, showing how legends become truths through continual citation; a sensitive guide to the patterns of public grief, foreshadowing many of the reactions to Sept. 11 (lawsuits, arguments about the memorial, voyeuristic bus tours); and, at the end of the day, a fine example of old fashioned journalism . . . moving things along with agility and grace.