Sutton

I gave up on page 50. I was annoyed by the plot device of driving around New York with a reporter and photographer to all the significant scenes of Sutton's life and by the trite way Moehringer addressed the cultural changes over the 20 years Sutton had been in prison. When I got to p. 51, Sutton and some friends torture a sheep in a slaughterhouse (in a section of the book where being a tattle tale or a “Judas” was said to be worse than murder, and where the sheep was said to be a “Judas sheep”) and I stopped reading. I wasn't enjoying the book anyway, and I wasn't up for reading about animals being tortured as a demonstration that betrayal of comrades would be harshly punished.