olaszka p

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• Rated 5 stars

“truman capote is easily the most versatile american author of all time. this time he turns to something perhaps closest to his true nature - gossip. i swam through the filth of his last, unfinished novel with remarkable easiness - it's like reading perez hilton, only masterly written. it's as witty as it is observant and capote to me was a true genius.
honestly, this book was the main focus of my 90-page-long MA thesis so I would be undoing myself by reviewing it like any other book. all i can say is that it is a true harbinger of our times and absolutely must be read!”

olaszka p wrote this review Friday, November 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“extremely powerful and disturbing”

olaszka p wrote this review Thursday, July 29, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“LOVED IT! made me laugh, made me cry. nothing like a good romantic novel”

olaszka p wrote this review Tuesday, July 13, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“a very well written book, a big plus for a striking ending.”

olaszka p wrote this review Monday, June 14, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“what a genius capote is. he made me feel nostalgia for something i hadn't ever known.”

olaszka p wrote this review Monday, May 17, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“clearly a lot of effort was put into writing those 600 pages. it is extremely detailed but hardly boring. a marvelous read.”

olaszka p wrote this review Saturday, April 17, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 1 stars

“lesbian gothic, magic realism and in-your-face intertextuality in one tiny novella? thanks, but no thanks.”

olaszka p wrote this review Wednesday, April 14, 2010. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“i honestly can't see the point of this novel. it is a good commentary on relationships for which i am giving it two stars but otherwise it is appallingly pointless and aspiring to postmodernism, which only makes things worse. it's not that i didn't enjoy this book but i wouldn't read it if i didn't have to. ”

olaszka p wrote this review Friday, November 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“this is one of those books that you have to read multiple times if you study what i study. once, twice, it might stop at thrice if you're lucky.
a lot of things can be said about the novel. it's beautiful and warm and in many ways unputdownable. the full meaning may not come to you at once, but when it does, it stays with you forever. the only criticism is that it is a bit too much of a feminist pamplet. i don't mind the sentimentality but the imagery is taken straight out of hurston and retains nothing of its freshness.”

olaszka p wrote this review Friday, November 2, 2012. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“skillfully written, plays beautifully with the story of anne frank. roth is just pure class.”

olaszka p wrote this review Saturday, February 21, 2009. ( reply | permalink )