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The Painted Bird The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
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status: Read in January, 1974





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message 1: by Cliff
10/27/2007 05:30AM

109504 I went through a long Kosinski phase, reading everything I could get. In grad school, in the late '70s, I had a particularly graphic quotation from The Painted Bird taped to the door of my dorm room. I'm not sure what impression I was trying to give, but it was some of the most powerful writing I'd ever seen.

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message 2: by Ruth
10/27/2007 07:42AM

335159 After being wowed by PB, I too went into a Kosinksi phase, but none of other books made the impression on me that this did. This has inspired me to plan a reread (as soon as I can find a copy--I just moved).



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message 3: by rgb
10/27/2007 02:28PM

538288 That's almost identical to my experience, Ruth. I loved The Painted Bird (in a moderately painful way, given its content) along with other possibly related works such as Elie Weisel's Night. I then got a pile of his books, but none of them came close.

Being There was probably the second best -- I loved the movie, mostly because I adore(d) Peter Sellers and he was an absolutely perfect Chance, but TPB was a unique thing that he never really recaptured.

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message 4: by Ruth
10/27/2007 05:18PM

335159 Being there was, I think, one of the few times when the film was better than the book. I still try to get rid of things by clicking an imaginary remote at them.

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