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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I was gifted Capote's first novel for my twenty-third birthday, expecting a reading experience similar to "In Cold Blood" and receiving that expectation. Captivated by Capote's unique use of colons, I approached this Southern narrative, reminiscent of its Victorian history, as a look into the horror of modernity and was met with the fantastically egotistical and egregious self-righteousness of the characters' social standing(s). Judge not the characters that from history have spawn; and true, I have not judged Capote's characters with malice or mistrust. Rather, Capote's slow-to-unveil, dramatic coming-of-age is all together moot, in my taste for exquisite literature.
Capote continues to weird the language as if a master, but the droll of time is horrifyingly present and intoxicating.
Capote continues to weird the language as if a master, but the droll of time is horrifyingly present and intoxicating.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
this book is like if a person was born to bake cakes - like they were specifically designed by god to make cakes - and they were filled with so much passion for cakes that once they got their hands on the ingredients they just went insane with joy and started flinging icing and eggs and pots everywhere and they were so ecstatic that by the end the thing they made wasn’t even a cake, it was just this bizarre, inedible monument to the way cakes make you feel inside.
so yeah, that’s capote and that’s this book. the characters and the plot are just elements swimming in the ether of capote’s poetic prose. it’s barely coherent as a story but it is a very beautiful work of art.
Okay, so Truman Capote can WRITE. Poetically. Artistically. His characters live and breathe on every page...an imagination is barely required to see each and every one of them. They will reside in my memory far longer than the story itself. A bit too heavy on slices of life and far too light on action for me to fall madly in love with this book. However, I am definitely adding In Cold Blood to my To Read list. And, Truman Capote now occupies a premium spot on my Dinner With Dead People list.