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Summary: Required reading when you suffer from a case of the reds.
Review: I loved the wandering, Impromptu prose! Breakfast at Tiffany's is a romp through a vapid party; advice on what to do when you've gone from blue to red; secrets in the past that appear and stand on the street corner outside your apartment; and finally, a pathetic act of cat dumping. What impressed me most were the three short stories that followed Breakfast at Tiffany's. "A House of Flowers," read like a short story influenced by Garcia Marquez or Borges. And "The Diamond Guitar," sketches out memorable characters with an impressive scaracity of pages that only a master writer could make a story thrive in such a short word economy.
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Summary: Love Holly Golightly
Review: This book's highlight is not its story, however fluid and lyrical as well as imaginitive, but it's main character, Holly Golightly. She is one of the most likeable characters in literature; the one star marked off is for the vagueness of what happened to her, since the story is so short, you can't help but wonder and care what happened to her. In most versions, you will also have the short story, "A christams memory". READ this. this story is the most sentimental short story i've ever read.
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Summary: A person's charactre is very interesting.
Review: Reading Breakfast a Tiffany's is both a burden and also a privilege. When ever I read a book and the charactres in it, I often times follows the person's action to understand what make this person tick, why does he do what he did, why not this but that. I been lucky at this task until this book. The main charactre, Holly Golightly is a true charactre, 'a real phony', a charactre superficially is calm and gay, but deep down inside is confussed and lonely. She is the kind of charactre that could make you happy when you are sad and make you angry when you are happy! The other charactre, a nameless write in the city of New York. Like me, he is also trying to understand the downstair friend. In my view, it was these charactres that made the book great, made the book touching, made the book a classic. When one read it, they will find out that they could not put the book down, and they will loathe Capote for not making the book longer.
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Summary: Masterful story by one of the century's greatest writers.
Review: When Truman Capote is at his best -- and he is definitely at his best in Breakfast at Tiffany's -- he is the equal of any American author of the 20th century. Capote paints with words the picture of an enduring time, place and person: mid-century, New York, the small town girl who seeks fame and fortune in the big city. This is a master artist at his finest.For those who have seen it, the movie is a marvel, but it is constrained by the strictures of its time to be less than candid and less than faithful to the book. The book, while not as explicit or detailed as would be one written today, benefits from those restraints. We learn enough to appreciate Holly Golightly and the strange, wonderful and dangerous world in which she lived. We may know more -- about the author, to be sure -- but it isn't necessary to the book or the story. Its omission is actually helpful. Breakfast at Tiffany's is like a radio drama of its era. Capote's skillful use of words allows our imagination to fill in the details. Read it and appreciate one of the greats.
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Summary: Spiritless, Pointless, Meaningless
Review: This is a book of vacuous characters who do nothing. The plot goes nowhere while it follows Holly Golightly everywhere. While engaging in an endless round of socializing, she fails to endear herself in any way. I would certainly not waste my life chasing this shallow bimbo. The film version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" must have been a success because the entire script was rewritten to include only the original title. I give this book 1 star only because it was so mercifully short.
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Summary: A cocktail classic awaiting a new vogue
Review: Quite possibly the most perfect one hundred pages ever written. Why this book hasn't undergone a mass rediscovery by today's gay-friendly, cocktail swilling swinger set is beyond me. It is simply amazing, full of Capote's singular wit, guile and fluid rendering. A compressed epic, this book accomplishes more in terms of character and style than any book three times its length.
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Summary: By far one of Capote's best...
Review: This short story, by far is one of Truman Capote's best stories ever. I have read quiet a bit and am very impressed with the excellent imagery and detail. This man is one his own level of imagination, and I for one, am impressed by it. The story is one of it's own, and should be placed in time as one our greastest short stories ever!
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Summary: A time and place far removed but characters I'd like to meet
Review: I read this book for the first time in June of 1998. Having been born and raised in California after 1960 I had no experience with WW II era New York City, its time, people or it's language. Holly Golightly and her friends were foreign to me, but their charm, wit and personalities were so rich I felt like I knew them. The story is not a happy, silly romp, it shares the pain and heartache as well as the joys of a tiny sliver of humanity, a snap shot of people who could be our brothers or sisters or upstairs neighbors. The story is amazing in its development over the course of only 87 pages but by the end I really wished to discover where Holly is today and invite her over for drinks. :)
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Summary: Is There Such a Thing as Wanting Too Badly?
Review: Readers tend to be sadists. How else do you explain their desire to place themselves into the lives of, or to become, fictional strangers, even when the outcome results in having your heart ripped out? The answer has something to do with "want"; readers want what characters want. Or readers want characters. Especially in this case, in which the object of desire is a tease yet a prude; glossy yet tainted; experienced yet naive. Holly Golightly is as complex a character as ever written, but a hell of a lot more desirable, and I want Holly Golightly.
Capote has penned the quintessential "bitch," which can only be defined as someone with the unique ability to pull someone in emotionally while pushing them away physically. And while Holly is a "bitch" of a character, Capote is a "bitch" of a writer, and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is a "bitch" of a book. At the novel's onset, I met Holly, instantly fell in love with her, and from there I spent my time chasing her, and I chased her until the conclusion, the point when I realized that my pursuit was futile. (This quest lasted for approximately two hours.) So what did I do then? I picked up the book and started reading it again.
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" is for gluttons for literary punishment--and I mean this in the most satisfying way--which should be anyone who enjoys reading. This is an almost perfect book that satisfies while leaving the reader longing for more.
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Summary: Another case of the book being better than the movie
Review: Truman Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's is another caseof the book far outstripping the movie in terms of characterizationand content. Those familiar with the movie will find a much less uplifting experience in the book, but an experience well worth the time. While I thouroghly enjoyed the movie, the book shows different sides of the characters and portrays more of the angst which is only touched upon in the movie. This book receives my highest possible recommendation.
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