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So it's true. The story is much more complex that what you've seen in the film, and it's almost as though they ended the movie halfway through the written novella.

I've read debates over whether it's better to see a movie version first, or read a book version, and up until now I'm been undecided. I've always been of the opinion that short stories make better movies than novels, because it's too hard to fit so much content into 3 hours or less. But now I wish I'd waited to watch Breakfast at Tiffany's until I'd read the written version.

The great thing about this story is you can never be sure what's real or what's a facade with Holly Golightly. The other great thing is that the complexity of the book has allowed me to replace the image of Audrey Hepburn as Golightly with the face of someone much more appropriate to the text, which says a lot, considering it was her most famous role.

So in all, the book is great. The other stories are quite different from the headliner. I didn't care so much for "A Diamond Guitar," but "House of Flowers" is bittersweet and beautiful and "A Christmas Memory" is so heartfelt and realistic a reminiscence that the last paragraph brought tears to my eyes.

This is the first Capote book I've read, but it won't be the last.
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