The Complete Stories of Truman Capote I think I answered my questions about Truman Capote with this whirlwind look at most of his writing. I read In Cold Blood a few years back and I like it a lot. I think it’s really strong, but I think more than anything, it’s too rich a backstory, too big of a book, and the movie is so good that I couldn’t help but love it. I liked a lot of these stories in this collection. Some of them […]
The blurbs over-blurbed it.
So I’ve bee seeing this cover blasted all over Goodreads for about a year now. It’s gorgeous. It’s fascinating. It’s interesting. The blurbs for this book compare it to MR James, Henry James, Sarah Waters, and others like that. They say it’s sexy, sumptuous, rich, etc etc etc. It’s ok. It’s pretty ok. The story is about a variety of people who live and move to Essex in east England. It involves a headstrong and experimental surgeon, a minister, a recent widow, and an urban […]
This should turn into a good show eventually
I think the writing in this book is really good. It’s as good as anything by Walter Mosley I have read, and that’s not entirely a good thing, but it’s good. But it happens to be a LOT like the second season of the Wire in a lot of ways and it’s about Black Panthers in some ways, so I get it, people don’t like it. The story here takes place in Houston in 1980. It’s several years after our protagonist Jay Porter was a […]
Comes in threes
I read this novel in conjunction (accidentally) with that movie Captain Fantastic and also while playing Horizon Zero Dawn. All three have share some parallels with living off the land, primitivism, environmentalist, violence, and processing the potential coming humanistic crisis. Captain Fantastic suffered mightily with tone issues. It couldn’t tell if it wanted to be Wes Anderson or Alexander Payne or Sean Penn. It tried to have serious drama, whimsy, parody, and a few other things and makes shortcuts among them. Horizon Zero Dawn might be one of the […]
The Anti-Gone with the Wind
This book is sort of like a combination of Cold Mountain and Gilead. And I mean that as a good thing because I really like both of those novels. The premise is that this novel tells the lost story of Mr. March, the father figure of Little Women while he is off to war. It’s told as a personal narrative from Mr. March’s perspective, with a small section near the end in the voice of Ms. March. March doesn’t go to fight in the war but to be […]
The Tragic Necessity
I can’t possibly rate this book in terms of five stars. My feelings on it and its qualities will be pretty apparent by what I say. This book holds you captive. It’s easy to begin, easy to keep reading, and when the hammer falls (at least when it fell for me) its hold on you is so strong and appalling you have to go on. I think at that point you break in a few ways. You either go on, stewing resentment and annoyance, or […]
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