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Incredible writing
I loved the movie, and it proved to be a great adaptation of the book. Here we stay with Therese the entire time, who is a strange and fascinating girl. Carol is enigmatic--kind of a steady force. And the writing is beautiful. Great pose.
I loved the movie, and it proved to be a great adaptation of the book. Here we stay with Therese the entire time, who is a strange and fascinating girl. Carol is enigmatic--kind of a steady force. And the writing is beautiful. Great pose.
This starts off so SLOW. I kept waiting for it to grab me like all the other books I’ve read by Highsmith have grabbed me. I had such a hard time caring about any of the characters; I had no idea why Therese was so obsessed with Carol - Carol seemed like a snide jerk. Highsmith, of course, is known for writing unlikeable characters, but they usually have a charisma that keeps me engaged. Carol felt very flat.
Finally - FINALLY - almost 75% of the way into the book, a sense of a noose tightening b ...more
Finally - FINALLY - almost 75% of the way into the book, a sense of a noose tightening b ...more
Nov 04, 2023
Loretta
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tangential note: okay, I get that the book was written under a pseudonym back in the day, but it's deeply weird to me that Goodreads is displaying the pseudonym rather than Patricia Highsmith. I might have to change editions to fix that.
Anyhoo - this is another book I started but had to pause because the first half? 3/4? of the book is all closeted yearning in homophobic world and I didn't know which direction it was going to go - joyful love in hard times OR queer despair and death and I reall ...more
Anyhoo - this is another book I started but had to pause because the first half? 3/4? of the book is all closeted yearning in homophobic world and I didn't know which direction it was going to go - joyful love in hard times OR queer despair and death and I reall ...more
3.5. Young sales clerk Therese falls in love with a customer buying a doll for her daughter's Christmas present, and things spiral. I saw the movie, Carol, first, and wow did it ever stay true to the book. Therese and Carol are both very reserved, detached women, and Therese particularly is quite passive even in her passion, and Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara were perfectly cast to match. Even though it was so slow and emotions felt so removed, the writing was solid and the story almost mesmeriz
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scattered, tragic
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Andrea Thatcher
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it was amazing
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