kaylagoggin 's review for:

Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

4.0

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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.