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I found that Holly came across with a lot less innocence and whimsy than the way she does in the movie. The whole story is amazingly well written, and this will definitely be one that I pick up again - I can't remember the last time I read an entire book in one day.
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I liked the book, but I will take the movie over the book any day. I guess I am just a sucker for a happy ending. I found this to be a very easy read, and I like the way that Capote writes. I have never read anything by him prior to this.
I read this before seeing the film version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, and I think the story is much stronger than in the film. It lacks the happy ending found in the movie, but I think that gives it a more solid, heavy feeling; Holly's problems are not the kind that can be easily solved by having a great new friend, and I think the story really carries that message home: sometimes, things just are not okay in the end. That is the general feeling I got from this whole collection of stories. Somet
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I've never read Truman Capote before and his style (at least in B@Ts) was surprisingly lyrical and light. There is a lot of whimsy, despite some reasonably dark subject matter. Very fun to read.
The copy I read also contained three short stories which I also liked very much, especially A Christmas Memory, which was very sweet and nostalgic and left me eager to bake pies and smell snow in the air. Yum. ...more
The copy I read also contained three short stories which I also liked very much, especially A Christmas Memory, which was very sweet and nostalgic and left me eager to bake pies and smell snow in the air. Yum. ...more
I re-read this one while I was @ WLC and actually enjoyed it this time.
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