rory's review
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas
by Rick Moody
rory's review
Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas by Rick Moody
rory's review
rating:
rick, you're making ME moody. i've loved every story you've ever had published in any "best of" anthology. i adored "demonology" and pushed it on strangers.
but lately...you're less the astonishingly compelling writer man i've loved and more laureate-y and obscure. i really struggled to finish any of the these three novellas, and only managed the last, "the albertine notes."
amy benfer, on salon, said this of moody:
"And then there are writers who are simply so good that they don't feel the need to ask your permission before they take you over a cliff or into a train wreck or introduce you to a dead family member or a teenage arsonist. Rick Moody is, of course, the second kind, the kind of writer who doesn't stop to say "please" and "thank you."
well, fine, you're too good to say "please," rick moody, so i'll just forget to say "thanks" when i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
but lately...you're less the astonishingly compelling writer man i've loved and more laureate-y and obscure. i really struggled to finish any of the these three novellas, and only managed the last, "the albertine notes."
amy benfer, on salon, said this of moody:
"And then there are writers who are simply so good that they don't feel the need to ask your permission before they take you over a cliff or into a train wreck or introduce you to a dead family member or a teenage arsonist. Rick Moody is, of course, the second kind, the kind of writer who doesn't stop to say "please" and "thank you."
well, fine, you're too good to say "please," rick moody, so i'll just forget to say "thanks" when i don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
