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Summary: Memorable & Original
Review: This novella is beautifully written and it touched me and moved me in ways I hadn't anticipated. The prose is so elegant and describes characters and situations with such depth and feeling. The story tells the story of Holly Golightly from the perspective of a narrator that once knew Holly when he lived above her in an old brownstone apartment building in New York City. In the time that they knew each other, they went from strange neighbors to the closest of confidants. The exposition of the story reveals that it has been fifteen years since the last time the narrator has seen Holly. It is the story of two prostitutes trying to make it in the big city. You experience New York in the 1940s as Holly Golightly runs from herself. The beautiful nature of Holly Golightly contrasts against her extreme sadness, and the result is a story filled with emotion. Capote's artistic talent and his skill at building and developing characters is showcased in this work. It can be read in one sitting, and you'll wish it was longer -- or the first in a trilogy -- when you're finished.
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Summary: More than I expected by a long shot
Review: I really just loved this book. This addition has BAT and three other wonderful Capote stories The House of Flowers, A Cristmas Memory, and The Diamond Guitar. I like these stories because each shows that there is prices to be paid in life and that there are some both negative and postive conquences to almost any relationship. BAT is a story is so unique it is about a girl that everyone wants to save, but who really never needs it. Holly Golightly is a woman with an unknown past and a less known future. Everyone she meets seems to think she is a fake but for the fact that she is genuinly not trying to convince anyone she isn't. It is the story of a woman who wants freedom and love, but in a masculine way is willing to part with love that has to high a price. There is only one Holly Golightly in the relm of literature. The House of Flowers is about a poor Hatian girl who goes from being a well paid prostitute in Porto Prince to a wife of a honest man. The story shows that she has to indure hardships in Marriage as well as in her first profession. It also shows that often we only have to look back a little bit to see value of the present. The Diamond Guitar is a story of two men in prision who are best friends and the conflict they have when one man wants to escape. It has to deal with friendship, loss , freedom and memory. It is comic and tragdic. The christmas memory is just too hard to explain, but it shows the life of a person who never can grows up and her experinece with a young boy who has no choice but to grow up.
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Summary: Entirely Captivating!!
Review: A more profound offering than I had originally expected. The details are so richly expressed, and the characters and the events taking place are so intricately woven together, that by the end, everything is neatly wrapped up, which the reader can enjoy very much.
A short novel, one in which I finished in one day (a few hours-I suppose I might identify with some of the characters more than other readers, but I was thoroughly engrossed.), is the story of a man who remembers a girl whose path he had crossed. He fell in love with her, and she was a traveler. Many adventures later (and a lot of philosophical musings), the 111-page story comes to an end, and I found myself genuinely caring about the respective destinies of the characters. This is something that I'd like to read and re-read again and again, might go on my top ten list.
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Summary: a great New York novella
Review: This book is told exclusively from the viewpoint of the neighbor and friend of Holiday "Holly" Golightly. They live in Manhattan in a little apartment building, and he knows her for only short while. He doesn't know where she came from (at first) nor where she goes later, but that is all part of the Holly essence. Like many other people, Holly is looking to invent herself as the person she wants to be, and 1940s New York is the perfect place to do so. They have all sorts of New York adventures, such as their famed window-shopping expedition at Tiffany's. Holly indeed has a cat named "Cat", to whom she pledges no allegiance, not even a permanent name -- it's like they are roommates with the agreeance that when one moves out, the other is not expected to come with him or her. Holly is not so much physically attractive as she is emotionally attractive, and therein lies her popularity with men and her ability to make them fall in love with her at the drop of a hat. But she is not without fire. Perhaps one of the most memorable lines in the book is, after her friend has insulted her, she says "It will take you to the count of five to reach the front door. I am counting to three."
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Summary: beautiful
Review: Truman Capote is the master of both description and character development. Holly Golightly comes alive in dialogue. This is a breezy read, in the best possible sense of the term. It never bores and brims with poetic description, rich in detail, but never dense or plodding. The three short stories are similar in skill and beauty, but entirely different in tone, location, and plot. I almost cried at the end of A Christmas Memory. The Diamond Guitar reminded me of The Shawshank Redemption in atmosphere, but with an entirely different story.
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Summary: Fast pace!
Review: This book was entertaining and fast moving but didn't make sense at times. A good book for anyone that likes a quick read. there is a lot of underlying messages that need a closer look after reading it once. Reading it over again helps you pick up on little things you didn't get before.
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Summary: Falling in Love Again...
Review: I didn't know how many times you could have your heart broken just by reading one book, but Truman Capote makes it happen on almost every page. Every sentence means something distinct. No word is wasted. The book is Capote's masterpiece, which is saying alot considdering how accomplished Capote is as an author. The character of Holly Golightly is one that even Audrey Hepburn with her loveable, un-matchable quirky grace could not exactly capture.
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Summary: beautiful, effin' brilliant.
Review: prose that dances and characters that do more than suffice. its every month or so that i read this book over.. its such a treat.
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Summary: A Great Collection
Review: I confess I bought this book because Cosmopolitan recommended it, but I was drawn in quickly by the sophisticated, elegant writing style. I'd never read Capote before and it took a little while to get used to the subtleties and the absence of action, which is a great strength of Breakfast at Tiffany's. The following short stories are also very well done and I picked up the book every chance I got.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I haven't ever seen the movie and I never wanted to. And I normally wouldn't have read this book either, it just doesn't sound appealing. But I became a huge fan of Capote, especially after reading In Cold Blood. Initially I enjoyed the story very much. It was interesting, witty, and humorous. But then it became less and less interesting, and then ended in a way not satisfactory to me. Admittedly I don't know how I would have ended it, but nevertheless, it wouldn't be the way Capote did. All in all it was a good book, but not worthy of the praise it receives.
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