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michblue52's review against another edition
Fascinating insight into Capote’s life but I couldn’t handle some of the dated language. Did not age well in many aspects. May give it another try.
eff_dot's review against another edition
I lost interest. I found the characters pretty unlikeable and the gossipy nature of it made me uncomfortable. Knowing what this was to begin with, I should have known better but curiosity got the better of me.
I hate not finishing books but I kept dreading my nighttime read so I'm abandoning this and passing the book on.
I hate not finishing books but I kept dreading my nighttime read so I'm abandoning this and passing the book on.
warrenrogers's review against another edition
challenging
funny
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
freshkatsu's review against another edition
3.0
As the title suggests, Answered Prayers is unfinished, and no, your dying question about Kate McCloud's fate is unanswered.
jarichan's review
3.0
"Erhörte Gebete" ist mein drittes Buch von Capote und hebt sich von den anderen beiden ab. Irgendwie erinnerte es mich ein wenig an Vonnegut, ein wenig an "The Great Gatsby" und ein wenig an Paul Auster. Irgendwie an alles, nur nicht Capote. Aber vielleicht habe ich den Autoren auch nur falsch eingeschätzt.
Auf jeden Fall lesen sich die Gebete sehr unterhaltsam. Wir besuchen die Welt der Reichen und Schönen, der Emporkömmlinge. Wir sind bei Orgien dabei, fleischlichen wie alkoholischen. Es wird geheiratet und geschieden. Es geht wild zu und her in diesem Buch und das macht es zu einer kurzweiligen Lektüre, auch wenn dies ab und an ihre Längen hat.
Aufschlussreich war das Nachwort, das die Entstehungsgeschichte dieses Fragments aus fast schon erster Hand erklärt. So erhält man ein besseres Verständnis für Capote, seinen Text und dessen Inhalt. Diesen Teil fand ich ehrlich gesagt fast noch interessanter als die Geschichte selbst. Denn diese werde ich wahrscheinlich rasch vergessen haben und für einen Reread war es dann doch nicht grossartig genug. Dann lieber noch einmal Tiffany.
Auf jeden Fall lesen sich die Gebete sehr unterhaltsam. Wir besuchen die Welt der Reichen und Schönen, der Emporkömmlinge. Wir sind bei Orgien dabei, fleischlichen wie alkoholischen. Es wird geheiratet und geschieden. Es geht wild zu und her in diesem Buch und das macht es zu einer kurzweiligen Lektüre, auch wenn dies ab und an ihre Längen hat.
Aufschlussreich war das Nachwort, das die Entstehungsgeschichte dieses Fragments aus fast schon erster Hand erklärt. So erhält man ein besseres Verständnis für Capote, seinen Text und dessen Inhalt. Diesen Teil fand ich ehrlich gesagt fast noch interessanter als die Geschichte selbst. Denn diese werde ich wahrscheinlich rasch vergessen haben und für einen Reread war es dann doch nicht grossartig genug. Dann lieber noch einmal Tiffany.
literateguineapig's review against another edition
Characters were entirely off putting and the stories were not gripping or particularly compelling
pjv1013's review against another edition
4.0
O muito esperado e nunca terminado romance de Truman Capote. O autor anunciou esta obra 20 anos antes da data em que foi publicada, inacabada. Efectivamente só foi publicada depois da sua morte e corresponde muito a um texto em construção, um texto inacabado e, provavelmente, incompleto.
Partindo do seu ego Capote classificou esta obra como «um equivalente contemporâneo da obra-prima de Marcel Proust, “Em Busca do Tempo Perdido”, pretendendo neste romance apresentar uma análise da “bolha” das elites (ou melhor as super elites) da Europa e dos EUA.
Como habitual nas suas obras Truman Capote provoca reações acirradas nos seus leitores. Pessoalmente gostei do livro, mas estamos perante um obra efetivamente não terminada.
Partindo do seu ego Capote classificou esta obra como «um equivalente contemporâneo da obra-prima de Marcel Proust, “Em Busca do Tempo Perdido”, pretendendo neste romance apresentar uma análise da “bolha” das elites (ou melhor as super elites) da Europa e dos EUA.
Como habitual nas suas obras Truman Capote provoca reações acirradas nos seus leitores. Pessoalmente gostei do livro, mas estamos perante um obra efetivamente não terminada.
albon's review against another edition
4.0
(Review from 2013)
Ah, what I wouldn't give for this to be a finished product.
There are two things that make this a four-star book instead of a five-star.
1. It's not finished. It's an unfinished novel, and that means that a lot of the plot-lines were left unresolved, we didn't get to know what all the build-up was for, and we didn't find out how he ends up in the situation that he is in in "present-time", which I'm sure we would've gotten to know in a finished product.
2. The last thirty pages. I though I was gonna fall asleep. A few of the stories about the different people (that were completely unrelated whatsoever to the plot?) were interesting, but some of them were boring, and in the end it just didn't matter. I would rather that Truman Campote devoted the last pages he wrote to the story, and not to characters that I don't think would've been mentioned again. (Of course, for all I know, they might have been supposed to be really important later on. It just didn't feel like it.)
Still, I loved this book. And here is the number one reason: The voice of the main character, P. B. Jones. Those are not words I use a lot. Other people do, I usually stick to the general "I love the main character." But in this case, I have to say that I love his voice, even if I barely know what that means. It just feels right. He wasn't the most honorable character, or the nicest, or the meanest. He was cold and distant. He made promises that he didn't keep. But I found something real in his voice and I liked his story and the way he told it and the funny moments, and that what was made the book for me. I noticed something in this book that I never notice, and that, in my opinion, makes a book stick out.
The book is very short, so saying that I devoured it isn't really saying a lot. But for what it's worth, I did devour it. I devoured the names of the actual real people, and I stopped to googled them and look at pictures of them and found the authors on goodreads and read their biography on wikipedia. You know how rarely I do that? Well, obviously rarely because most of the books I read do not contain real people, but still. I like to think that my point stands.
This isn't something I usually read. I saw it one day at a library, and the cover caught my attention. The back sounded interesting. I didn't have my library card on me, so I came back for it a week later, so it wasn't as spontaneous as I like to think.
I'm very happy that I read this. It gave me something special, as corny as that sounds.
(but w o w reading unfinished novels 1/10 would not recommend it will bring pain from not knowing how it's gonna end and knowing that you'll never know)
Ah, what I wouldn't give for this to be a finished product.
There are two things that make this a four-star book instead of a five-star.
1. It's not finished. It's an unfinished novel, and that means that a lot of the plot-lines were left unresolved, we didn't get to know what all the build-up was for, and we didn't find out how he ends up in the situation that he is in in "present-time", which I'm sure we would've gotten to know in a finished product.
2. The last thirty pages. I though I was gonna fall asleep. A few of the stories about the different people (that were completely unrelated whatsoever to the plot?) were interesting, but some of them were boring, and in the end it just didn't matter. I would rather that Truman Campote devoted the last pages he wrote to the story, and not to characters that I don't think would've been mentioned again. (Of course, for all I know, they might have been supposed to be really important later on. It just didn't feel like it.)
Still, I loved this book. And here is the number one reason: The voice of the main character, P. B. Jones. Those are not words I use a lot. Other people do, I usually stick to the general "I love the main character." But in this case, I have to say that I love his voice, even if I barely know what that means. It just feels right. He wasn't the most honorable character, or the nicest, or the meanest. He was cold and distant. He made promises that he didn't keep. But I found something real in his voice and I liked his story and the way he told it and the funny moments, and that what was made the book for me. I noticed something in this book that I never notice, and that, in my opinion, makes a book stick out.
The book is very short, so saying that I devoured it isn't really saying a lot. But for what it's worth, I did devour it. I devoured the names of the actual real people, and I stopped to googled them and look at pictures of them and found the authors on goodreads and read their biography on wikipedia. You know how rarely I do that? Well, obviously rarely because most of the books I read do not contain real people, but still. I like to think that my point stands.
This isn't something I usually read. I saw it one day at a library, and the cover caught my attention. The back sounded interesting. I didn't have my library card on me, so I came back for it a week later, so it wasn't as spontaneous as I like to think.
I'm very happy that I read this. It gave me something special, as corny as that sounds.
(but w o w reading unfinished novels 1/10 would not recommend it will bring pain from not knowing how it's gonna end and knowing that you'll never know)
flick_reads's review against another edition
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0