sarah's review
Music for Chameleons
by Truman Capote
sarah's review
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote
sarah's review
rating:
A collection of stories from Truman Capote. . . it's pretty good but I made the mistake of reading the intro and discovering what a pompous ass Capote was, and that tainted the book for me. Would he have been as good a writer if he wasn't so full of himself? The book definitely raised that question for me. I only read less than half of the stories, and still need to read "Handcarved Coffins," but after a few of the stories I began to be tired of his "revolutionary" (to paraphrase himself) writing style, which seems to revolve around a wow moment being revealed toward the end of the story. Some of the situations are interesting, but the writing can feel a little dry--an advantage, I think, in "In Cold Blood," but not so much with works that are pure fiction like these.
