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Breakfast at Tiffany's and Three Stories: House of Flowers, A Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory

Truman Capote

Start date: December 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

Discussion: CLASSICS READS

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Jun 21, 2008 Debra Harrison rated it really liked it · review of another edition

this is a book I read in order to complete my reading of Capote. I was surprised by how much I liked it, though I enjoyed everything of his I had ever read.

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Apr 10, 2019 superawesomekt rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: needs-tag

3.5 stars with the audiobook narration by Michael C. Hall bringing it up to 4 stars.

There is a reason everyone has seen the movie and few have read the book; the language is dated (sometimes in ugly ways—there are a few racist or anti-Semitic terms among other now-offensive terms) and at times crass. But it was a pleasure to meet the original Holly Golightly. Audrey Hepburn really did a masterful job in the film.

For mature readers only.

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Aug 01, 2009 Denise rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, literature

Holly Golightly is a much seedier character then in the film... and a bit of a racist.

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Aug 18, 2009 Brenda rated it liked it · review of another edition

This book was kind of odd. It wasn't very long, and that's probably why I was able to finish it, but I'm just not sure what I felt about it. For the first half I was wondering what the book was even about. But somehow I was still interested in what I was reading. Now that I've finished it, I'm still not sure what the book was about. Maybe I'm just not "deep" enough. ...more

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