Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel (Vintage International)
by Truman Capote
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Read in January, 1996
recommends it for:
everyone
Whatever possessed Capote to turn on his lifelong friends, like Jackie O. and her sister, Lee Raziwill, William and Babe Paley, and the rest of the New York social set is beyond me. The fact that this novel was contracted for in 1966 and remained unpublished until after his death, says much about his ambivalence towards the project. At the same time, Capote spent many years being the lapdog to moneyed New Yorkers, wined and dined at the finest restaurants before going back to his room at the Y...more
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Read in June, 2007
It's a shame there isn't a complete behemoth version of this on the market. My secret wish is that he did finish it and it's hidden away somewhere, only to be found one day. It's delightfully sleazy and scandalous, and very well written.
After doing the hard crime angle, the world of celebrity gossip was a new career in a new town. He managed to get accepted and the vault of stories opened up. Too bad he printed some of the more spicy parts in advance, or he might've been able to get all the...more
After doing the hard crime angle, the world of celebrity gossip was a new career in a new town. He managed to get accepted and the vault of stories opened up. Too bad he printed some of the more spicy parts in advance, or he might've been able to get all the...more
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Read in December, 2002
I fully believe that I would not love this book so much if it were finished. Intended to be Capote's long-awaited, great novel, he died before finishing it, and the snippets were recently compiled into book form.
The amusing vignettes presented coupled with Capote's lyrical prose create a book that must be read with a pen, so one can underline all of the great lines, though it may lead to a book full of notations!
It's a quick and easily read book that never fails to amuse. Highly recomme...more
The amusing vignettes presented coupled with Capote's lyrical prose create a book that must be read with a pen, so one can underline all of the great lines, though it may lead to a book full of notations!
It's a quick and easily read book that never fails to amuse. Highly recomme...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
those want to read everything Capote wrote
I don't know what I was expecting when I picked Answered Prayers up at the library. It's a cross between something you'd read in Playboy and Vanity Fair magazines. Not a classy story. If it hadn't been written by Capote, I probably wouldn't have even bothered picking it up.
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Read in January, 2008
Talk about a foul (albeit unfinished) novel. Answered Prayers is interesting if you know the story behind Capote's writing it and how it alienated him from all his former friends, but this book really does show what a dirty mind he had!
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Read in February, 2007
i don't wish truman finished this book - i think its perfect as is. he's a brilliant writer who understands the less is more philosophy and demostrates it beautifully. i like his sharp tongue and wit. it's refreshing.
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This book lacked the final polish and rewrite an author would give to his work. For this reason, I felt it shed light on Capote's writing methods. Not jis greatest but very good considering he never finished it.
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Capote drunk himself dead and on the way he wrote this collection of stories.
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Read in March, 2007
it's unfinished, so it's just not very good, although there are some very funny moments and it's generally entertaining. Plus it has whoring it in. I'm sorry, that biases me
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Read in September, 2007
Mmmm...not my favorite Truman Copote book.
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Ridiculously camp unfinished novel about a writer/rent boy struggling forsuccess...bitchy, bizarre and very funny.
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He turned on all his friends to write this. And then they turned on him.
not.
Worth.
it.
not.
Worth.
it.
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This packs a punch -- for Capote followers, fans -- etc -- it is a must.
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Read in March, 2006
recommends it for:
No one.
This book should never have been published.
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