In this sequel to the first novel The Talented Mr. Ripley we find Tom Ripley still living off those checks from Dickie Greenleaf, now married, and embroiled in an art forgery scandal. What’s always funny to me about criminals is that too often, while there’s money to be made and all that, the amount of work required in order to make their enterprises work is equal to or greater than the return on investment of their enterprises. So the lengths that Tom Ripley must go to […]
Ugh Part two
This is also not a very good play at all. Here’s the setup…..a head of research institute is farcically driven. He’s got a daughter who wants to eschew college to be an actor and a son who wants to drop out of college and might be a rapist. David Schwimmer plays the maybe rapist. But it’s ok, you guys, it’s a comedy. It’s every so slightly better than the other play of hers I read. But it’s not good. What do you think goes through […]
Ugh and slightly less Ugh
The Truth-Teller: Joyce Carol Oates is not a playwright. And I mean this, after listening to two of her plays. These are both really really bad. There’s kind of a long history of established writers working in different fields. Find a successful novelist who has written a ton of work and then see if they don’t have their “poetry” phase. It’s usually very bad. There’s plenty of writers who are able to work in multiple media, but I think when someone excels at the hardest […]
The title makes me want to hate this.
I don’t know if I trust Joyce Carol Oates. This collection of short stories was better than the title of the title story made it seem like it should. One of the issues that made me distrustful in general is that this collection had a “theme” to it, that is Tales of Suspense. But in reality the stories were better than that made it seem like they might be. So of the stories, several stood out as being fairly strong. The opening story “Hi How […]
This is a beautiful gem of a book
I don’t actually read poetry that comfortably. I mean this specifically that I don’t read books of poetry that comfortably. I tend to want to finish books and that leads me to moving through poetry too quickly. And so I often avoid collections, and since I teach high school English, I figure I get a decent amount of poetry in my life as a matter of course. Luckily for me, I listened to the audiobook version of this book read by the author and so […]
Americans have a lot of hangups but
But British readers love to savage books that DEIGN to be nominated for the Booker Prize. I know historically it’s been a relatively conservative prize that gives awards to the elder statesmen (and very few women) or feels like sometimes it rewards trends or underrepresented voices, often ignoring the best books in a given year for books that are a better “fit” for the prize. I mean if you looks through the list of winners and nominees there’s almost always a few you might feel […]
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