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cmiller0401 's review for:
Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
I would give parts I and II each five stars, and part III one star, for an overall rating of three stars.
The end was a total flop. Not that I need things tied-up with a bow, it just kind of meandered into nothing.
Parts I and II were what I love about Capote, although with some small caveats. I'm not surprised that this was his first book, published when he was so young. There are two telltale features of bad writing here that I haven't seen in his later works:
1) The dramatic over-description of things
-There was some flowery description that just came across as trying too hard.
2) Over-doing "clever" grammatical constructions
-Using the "-ly" forms of colors: "whitely" (pg 193), "bluely" (pg 42), "redly" (pg 83), "greenly" (pgs 53, 193), "blackly" (pg 108), "goldenly" (pg 29), and maybe others.
Some description and artistic license can be good, too much is just tacky. I like to think that they are like makeup in this way. "Less is more," as they say--more seasoned (quality) writers learn this. Regardless of these quirks, parts I and II were incredibly well-written for a 23/24-year-old author, and pretty good for an author of any age.
The end was a total flop. Not that I need things tied-up with a bow, it just kind of meandered into nothing.
Parts I and II were what I love about Capote, although with some small caveats. I'm not surprised that this was his first book, published when he was so young. There are two telltale features of bad writing here that I haven't seen in his later works:
1) The dramatic over-description of things
-There was some flowery description that just came across as trying too hard.
2) Over-doing "clever" grammatical constructions
-Using the "-ly" forms of colors: "whitely" (pg 193), "bluely" (pg 42), "redly" (pg 83), "greenly" (pgs 53, 193), "blackly" (pg 108), "goldenly" (pg 29), and maybe others.
Some description and artistic license can be good, too much is just tacky. I like to think that they are like makeup in this way. "Less is more," as they say--more seasoned (quality) writers learn this. Regardless of these quirks, parts I and II were incredibly well-written for a 23/24-year-old author, and pretty good for an author of any age.